The 1972–73 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-fifth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
| 1972–73 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 16 |
| Winners | Leeds |
| Runners-up | Dewsbury |
Leeds winning the trophy by beating Dewsbury by the score of 36–9 in what would be Dewsbury's last appearance in a Yorkshire Cup final
The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 7,806 and receipts were £2,659
This was Leeds third victory (and the first of two consecutive victories) in what would be eight times in the space of thirteen seasons
Background
editThis season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants and no "leavers" and so the total of entries remained the same at sixteen.
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.
Competition and results
editRound 1
editInvolved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fri 25 Aug 1972 | Huddersfield | 26-5 | Doncaster | Fartown | ||||||
| 2 | Fri 25 Aug 1972 | Hull F.C. | 8-19 | Leeds | Boulevard | [3] | |||||
| 3 | Sat 26 Aug 1972 | Bramley | 16-9 | York | McLaren Field | ||||||
| 4 | Sun 27 Aug 1972 | Wakefield Trinity | 38-17 | Keighley | Belle Vue | [4] | |||||
| 5 | Sun 27 Aug 1972 | Dewsbury | 19-5 | Castleford | Crown Flatt | ||||||
| 6 | Sun 27 Aug 1972 | Featherstone Rovers | 38-8 | Batley | Post Office Road | ||||||
| 7 | Sun 27 Aug 1972 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 36-27 | Bradford Northern | Craven Park (1) | ||||||
| 8 | Sun 27 Aug 1972 | Hunslet | 8-76 | Halifax | Parkside |
Round 2 - Quarter-finals
editInvolved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 5 Sep 1972 | Leeds | 36-5 | Featherstone Rovers | Headingley | ||||||
| 2 | Wed 6 Sep 1972 | Bramley | 8-20 | Dewsbury | McLaren Field | ||||||
| 3 | Wed 6 Sep 1972 | Huddersfield | 12-8 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Fartown | ||||||
| 4 | Thu 7 Sep 1972 | Wakefield Trinity | 9-11 | Halifax | Belle Vue | [4] |
Round 3 – Semi-finals
editInvolved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 20 Sep 1972 | Dewsbury | 19-10 | Halifax | Crown Flatt | ||||||
| 2 | Wed 20 Sep 1972 | Leeds | 26-13 | Huddersfield | Headingley |
Final
edit| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 7 October 1972 | Leeds | 36-9 | Dewsbury | Odsal | 7,806 | £2,659 | 1 | [5][6] |
Teams and scorers
edit| Leeds | No. | Dewsbury |
|---|---|---|
| teams | ||
| John Holmes | 1 | Adrian Rushton |
| Alan Smith | 2 | Greg Ashcroft |
| Syd Hynes | 3 | Alan Childe |
| Les Dyl | 4 | Terry Day |
| John Atkinson | 5 | Jeff Yorward? |
| Alan Hardisty (c) | 6 | Allan Agar |
| Keith Hepworth | 7 | Alan Bates |
| Terry Clawson | 8 | John Bell? |
| David Ward | 9 | Mike "Stevo" Stephenson |
| Bill Ramsey | 10 | Trevor "Dick" Lowe |
| Phil Cookson | 11 | Jeff Grayshon |
| Graham Eccles | 12 | John Bates |
| Ray Batten | 13 | Steve Hankins |
| John Langley (for Keith Hepworth) | 14 | Steve Lee (for John Bates) |
| Tony Fisher (for Terry Clawson) | 15 | Harry Beverley (for John Bell) |
| Derek Turner | Coach | Tommy Smales |
| 36 | score | 9 |
| 15 | HT | 2 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| John Holmes (3) | T | Greg Ashcroft (1) |
| Les Dyl (2) | T | |
| John Atkinson | T | |
| Alan Hardisty (1) | T | |
| Graham Eccles (1) | T | |
| Goals | ||
| Syd Hynes (1) | G | Alan Bates (3) |
| Terry Clawson (5) | G | |
| Referee | Michael "Mick" J. Naughton (Widnes) | |
| White Rose Trophy for Man of the match | John Holmes - Leeds - Fullback | |
| sponsored by | ||
| Competition Sponsor | Esso |
Scoring - Try = three points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point
The road to success
edit| First round | Second round | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 36 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 38 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 26 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 26 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doncaster | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 36 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 27 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 36 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 38 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 76 | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes and comments
edit1 * Odsal is the home ground of Bradford Northern from 1890 to 2010 and the current capacity is in the region of 26,000, The ground is famous for hosting the largest attendance at an English sports ground when 102,569 (it was reported that over 120,000 actually attended as several areas of boundary fencing collapse under the sheer weight of numbers) attended the replay of the Challenge Cup final on 5 May 1954 to see Halifax v Warrington.
General information for those unfamiliar
editThe Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from outside the county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden).
The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Rugby League Project".
- ^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975–76. Queen Anne Press.
- ^ "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
- ^ a b J C Lindley and D W Armitage (1973). 100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973. Wakefield Trinity Centenary Committee. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
- ^ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
- ^ a b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.