| 1965–66 Yorkshire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Bradford Northern |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Hunslet |
| Prevseason Link: | 1964 Yorkshire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1964–65 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1966 Yorkshire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1966–67 |
| No Of Teams: | 16 |
The 1965–66 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-eighth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Bradford Northern winning the trophy by beating Hunslet by the score of 17-8
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 17,522 and receipts were £4,359
This 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.
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fri 3 Sep 1965 | Hunslet | 8-2 | Doncaster | Parkside | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 4 Sep 1965 | Batley | 9-37 | Halifax | Mount Pleasant | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 4 Sep 1965 | Castleford | 22-8 | Featherstone Rovers | |||||||||||||||||||
| 47 | Sat 4 Sep 1965 | Dewsbury | 4-27 | Huddersfield | Crown Flatt | 2,800 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sat 4 Sep 1965 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 17-9 | York | Craven Park (1) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sat 4 Sep 1965 | Keighley | 2-19 | Bradford Northern | Lawkholme Lane | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sat 4 Sep 1965 | Leeds | 40-4 | Bramley | Headingley | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sat 4 Sep 1965 | Wakefield Trinity | 4-8 | Hull F.C. | Belle Vue | [5] |
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon? 13 Sep 1965 | Hunslet | 9-8 | Hull F.C. | Parkside | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Tue 14 Sep 1965 | Castleford | 25-8 | Halifax | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Wed 15 Sep 1965 | Bradford Northern | 12-6 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Odsal | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Wed 15 Sep 1965 | Huddersfield | 16-6 | Leeds | Fartown | 4,008 |
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon? 27 Sep 1965 | Hunslet | 17-10 | Castleford | Parkside | 9,347 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 29 Sep 1965 | Bradford Northern | 7-7 | Huddersfield | Odsal |
Involved 1 match and 2 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | Thu 30 Sep 1965 | Huddersfield | 4-7 | Bradford Northern | Fartown |
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=45 abbr="Att" | Att | width=60 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 16 October 1965 | Bradford Northern | 17-8 | Hunslet | Headingley | 17,522 | £4,359 | 1 | [6] [7] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Bradford Northern | width=60 abbr="Number" | No. | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Hunslet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| Joe Scattergood? | 1 | Billy Langton | |||
| Lionel Williamson | 2 | Barry Lee | |||
| Ian Brooke | 3 | Geoff Shelton | |||
| Alan Rhodes | 4 | Arthur Render | |||
| Willie Walker | 5 | Tommy Thompson | |||
| Dave Stockwell | 6 | Alan Preece | |||
| Thomas Smales | 7 | Alan Marchant | |||
| Albert Tonkinson | 8 | Dennis Hartley | |||
| Dennis Morgan? | 9 | Bernard Prior | |||
| Dave Hill | 10 | William "Billy" Baldwinson/Ken Eyre | |||
| G Ashton | 11 | Bill Ramsey | |||
| Terry Clawson | 12 | Geoff Gunney | |||
| Johnny Rae | 13 | Fred Ward | |||
| Gus Risman | Coach | Fred Ward | |||
| 17 | score | 8 | |||
| 7 | HT | 3 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Lionel Williamson (2) | T | Barry Lee (1) | |||
| Ian Brooke (1) | T | Tommy Thompson (1) | |||
| T | |||||
| T | |||||
| Goals | |||||
| Terry Clawson (4) | G | Billy Langton (1) | |||
| G | |||||
| Drop Goals | |||||
| DG | |||||
| Referee | Eric Lawrenson (Warrington) | ||||
1 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.
The 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)