| 1970–71 Yorkshire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Leeds |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Featherstone Rovers |
| Prevseason Link: | 1969 Yorkshire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1969–70 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1971 Yorkshire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1971–72 |
| No Of Teams: | 16 |
The 1970–71 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Leeds won the trophy by beating Featherstone Rovers by the score of 23–7
The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 6,753 and receipts were £1,879
This was Featherstone Rovers's second Yorkshire Cup final defeat in successive competitions
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 | ||
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| 1 | Fri 28 Aug 1970 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 9–27 | Hull F.C. | Craven Park (1) | [3] | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 29 Aug 1970 | Bramley | 27–5 | Bradford Northern | McLaren Field | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 29 Aug 1970 | Castleford | 29–4 | Halifax | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 29 Aug 1970 | Featherstone Rovers | 40–9 | York | Post Office Road | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sat 29 Aug 1970 | Wakefield Trinity | 10–20 | Leeds | Belle Vue | [4] | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sun 30 Aug 1970 | Dewsbury | 12–10 | Keighley | Crown Flatt | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sun 30 Aug 1970 | Huddersfield | 17–0 | Batley | Fartown | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sun 30 Aug 1970 | Hunslet | w/o | Doncaster | Parkside | 1 |
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 | ||
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| 1 | Mon 7 Sep 1970 | Castleford | 7–14 | Leeds | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Fri 11 Sep 1970 | Bramley | 12–7 | Dewsbury | McLaren Field | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Fri 11 Sep 1970 | Hull F.C. | 42–0 | Doncaster | Boulevard | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Wed 16 Sep 1970 | Huddersfield | 8–10 | Featherstone Rovers | Fartown |
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 | Tue 29 Sep 1970 | Hull F.C. | 11–12 | Leeds | Boulevard | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Fri 2 Oct 1970 | Featherstone Rovers | 23–2 | Bramley | Post Office Road |
| 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 | ||
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| Saturday 21 November 1970 | Leeds | 23–7 | Featherstone Rovers | Odsal | 6,753 | £1,879 | 2 | [5] [6] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Leeds | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Featherstone Rovers |
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| teams | |||||
| John Holmes | 1 | Cyril Kellett | |||
| Alan Smith | 2 | Michael "Mick" Smith | |||
| 3 | Keith Cotton | ||||
| Ronnie Cowan | 4 | John Newlove | |||
| John Atkinson | 5 | David "Dave" Hartley | |||
| Anthony Wainwright | 6 | Chris Harding | |||
| Mick Shoebottom | 7 | Terry Hudson | |||
| John Burke | 8 | Sam Windmill | |||
| Peter Dunn | 9 | Dennis Morgan (Sent off) | |||
| Phil Cookson | 10 | Steve Lyons | |||
| Bill Ramsey | 11 | Alan Rhodes | |||
| Bob Haigh | 12 | James "Jimmy" Thompson | |||
| Ray Batten | 13 | Vince Farrar | |||
| John Langley (for Anthony Wainwright) | 14 | Paul Coventry (for Chris Harding) | |||
| ? | 15 | ? | |||
| Derek Turner | Coaches | Laurie Gant | |||
| 23 | score | 7 | |||
| 8 | HT | 2 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Alan Smith (2) | T | Dave Hartley (1) | |||
| John Atkinson (1) | T | ||||
| Peter Dunn (1) | T | ||||
| Bill Ramsey (1) | T | ||||
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| Goals | |||||
| Syd Hynes (4) | G | Cyril Kellett (2) | |||
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| Referee | D S Brown (Preston) | ||||
| White Rose Trophy for Man of the match | Syd Hynes - Leeds - | ||||
| sponsored by |
1 * Just prior to the new season's start, the Hunslet players were told they had to accept a cut in wages. This they refused to accept as they had not had a rise for eight years. They went on strike. When the management threatened to close down the club, the players relented and backed down, but after only one match they went back on strike. This match was not played and Doncaster awarded a walk-over.
2 * 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
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)