1969–70 Yorkshire Cup Explained

1969–70 Yorkshire Cup
Structure:Regional knockout championship
Season Champs:Hull F.C.
Season Champ Name:Winners
Runner-Up Name:Runner-up
Second Place:Featherstone Rovers
Prevseason Link:1968 Yorkshire Cup
Prevseason Year:1968–69
Nextseason Link:1970 Yorkshire Cup
Nextseason Year:1970–71
No Of Teams:16

The 1969–70 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Hull F.C. won the trophy by beating Featherstone Rovers by the score of 12-9

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 11,089 and receipts were £3,419

This was only Hull FC's second Yorkshire Cup win (the previous being in 1923) in thirteen Final appearances and in many quarters the club had been classed as "the bridesmaid but never the bride". It was also to be Featherstone Rovers's first of two successive final defeats

This was the last Yorkshire Cup final for 9 years in which the attendance would reach 10,000

Background

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.

Competition and results

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Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

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1Sun 3 Aug 1969Dewsbury8-19HuddersfieldCrown Flatt2,000
2Wed 6 Aug 1969Bramley2-6BatleyMcLaren Field
3Thu 7 Aug 1969Halifax27-15Wakefield TrinityThrum Hall
4Fri 8 Aug 1969Leeds20-6Bradford NorthernHeadingley
5Fri 8 Aug 1969York20-7HunsletClarence Street
6Sat 9 Aug 1969Hull F.C.30-4CastlefordBoulevard[5]
7Sat 9 Aug 1969Keighley4-16Hull Kingston RoversLawkholme Lane
8Sun 10 Aug 1969Doncaster18-20Featherstone RoversBentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield

Round 2 - quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

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1Fri 15 Aug 1969Leeds44-6HalifaxHeadingley
2Sat 16 Aug 1969Batley20-30Hull Kingston RoversMount Pleasant
3Sat 16 Aug 1969Featherstone Rovers24-7HuddersfieldPost Office Road3,446
4Sat 16 Aug 1969York15-22Hull F.C.Clarence Street

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

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1Thu 28 Aug 1969Featherstone Rovers10-9Hull Kingston RoversPost Office Road
2Sat 30 Aug 1969Leeds17-20Hull F.C.Headingley

Final

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Saturday 20 September 1969Hull F.C.12-9Featherstone RoversHeadingley11,089£3,4191[6] [7]

Teams and scorers

width=280 abbr=winnerHullwidth=60 abbr="Number"width=280 abbr=runner-upFeatherstone Rovers
teams
Martin Owbridge1Cyril Kellett
Clive Sullivan2John Newlove
3Gary Jordan
John Maloney4Michael "Mick" Smith
Alf Macklin5David "Dave" Hartley
Brian Hancock6David Kellett
Chris Davidson7Steve Nash
Mick Harrison8Les Tonks
Alan McGlone9Vince Farrar
Jim Macklin10Steve Lyons
Thomas "Tom" Kirchin11Arnold Morgan
Chris Forster12James "Jimmy" Thompson
Joe Brown13Tommy Smales
??14Terry Hudson (for Dave Hartley)
??15??
Johnny WhiteleyCoachLaurie Gant
12score9
2HT4
Scorers
Tries
Clive Sullivan (1)TSteve Nash (1)
Jim Macklin (1)T
Goals
John Maloney (2)GCyril Kellett (3)
Joe Brown (1)G
Referee / (Oldham)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the matchJoe Brown - Hull -
sponsored by
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points

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The road to success

Notes and comments

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.

General information for those unfamiliar

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)

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rugby League Project.
  2. Book: Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding. John Player Yearbook 1975–76. 1991. Queen Anne Press.
  3. Book: HC&AC Committee. Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1970 (price 2/-). 1970. HC&AC Supporters' Club.
  4. Web site: Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1970.
  5. Web site: HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results.
  6. Book: Raymond Fletcher and David Howes. Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. 1991. Queen Anne Press. 0 35617852 8.
  7. Book: Raymond Fletcher and David Howes. Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. 1990. Queen Anne Press. 0 35617851 X.