| 1968–69 Yorkshire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Leeds |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Castleford |
| Prevseason Link: | 1967 Yorkshire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1967–68 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1969 Yorkshire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1969–70 |
| No Of Teams: | 16 |
The 1968–69 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-first occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Leeds won the trophy by beating Castleford by the score of 22-11. The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 12,573 and receipts were £3,746.
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 6 Sep 1968 | Doncaster | 7-13 | Halifax | Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 7 Sep 1968 | Batley | 12-11 | York | Mount Pleasant | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 7 Sep 1968 | Bramley | 5-24 | Bradford Northern | McLaren Field | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 7 Sep 1968 | Dewsbury | 5-6 | Castleford | Crown Flatt | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sat 7 Sep 1968 | Hull F.C. | 9-30 | Leeds | Boulevard | [5] | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sat 7 Sep 1968 | Hunslet | 19-11 | Huddersfield | Parkside | 1,500 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sat 7 Sep 1968 | Wakefield Trinity | 18-30 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Belle Vue | 1 | [6] | ||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sun 8 Sep 1968 | Featherstone Rovers | 21-10 | Keighley | Post Office Road |
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 16 Sep 1968 | Hunslet | 5-5 | Castleford | Parkside | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Tue 17 Sep 1968 | Featherstone Rovers | 10-18 | Leeds | Post Office Road | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Tue 17 Sep 1968 | Halifax | 14-10 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Thrum Hall | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Wed 18 Sep 1968 | Bradford Northern | 17-8 | Batley | 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 | Wed 18 Sep 1968 | Castleford | 33-18 | Hunslet |
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 | Sun 29 Sep 1968 | Bradford Northern | 15-16 | Castleford | Odsal | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Thu 3 Oct 1968 | Halifax | 5-12 | Leeds | Thrum Hall |
| 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 19 October 1968 | Leeds | 22-11 | Castleford | Belle Vue | 12,573 | £3,746 | 2 | [7] [8] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Leeds | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Castleford |
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| teams | |||||
| Bev Risman | 1 | Derek Edwards | |||
| Alan Smith | 2 | Keith Howe | |||
| Syd Hynes | 3 | Ronald Hill | |||
| Bernard Watson | 4 | Tony Thomas | |||
| John Atkinson | 5 | David Stephens | |||
| Mick Shoebottom | 6 | Alan Hardisty (c) | |||
| Barry Seabourne | 7 | Danny Hargrave | |||
| Mick Clark (c) | 8 | Dennis Hartley | |||
| Tony Crosby | 9 | Clive Dickinson | |||
| Kenny Eyre | 10 | John Ward | |||
| Bill Ramsey | 11 | Peter Small | |||
| Albert Eyre | 12 | Brian Lockwood | |||
| Ray Batten | 13 | Malcolm "Mal" Reilly | |||
| John Langley | 14 | Glyn Jones | |||
| David Hick (for Bill Ramsey) | 15 | Michael Redfearn (for Brian Lockwood) | |||
| Roy Francis | Coach | Derek Turner | |||
| 22 | score | 11 | |||
| 10 | HT | 8 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Alan Smith (1) | T | Ronald Hill (1) | |||
| Bernard Watson (1) | T | ||||
| John Atkinson (1) | T | ||||
| David Hick (1) | T | ||||
| Goals | |||||
| Bev Risman (5) | G | Ronald Hill (2) | |||
| G | Alan Hardisty (2) | ||||
| Referee | Joe Manley (Warrington) | ||||
| White Rose Trophy for Man of the match | Barry Seabourne - Leeds - | ||||
| sponsored by | |||||
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
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)