| 1977–78 Yorkshire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Castleford |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Featherstone Rovers |
| Prevseason Link: | 1976 Yorkshire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1976–77 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1978 Yorkshire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1978–79 |
| No Of Teams: | 16 |
The 1977–78 Yorkshire Cup was the seventieth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. This year, for the first time for eighteen years (and the last time in the history of the Yorkshire Cup), a new name appeared on the trophy, with Castleford winning it by beating Featherstone Rovers in the final by the score of 17-7. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 6,318 and receipts were £4,528. It as also Featherstone Rovers's second consecutive Yorkshire Cup final appearances, both of which resulted in a defeat.
The Rugby Football League's 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)
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.[1]
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 | Sat 20 Aug 1977 | Batley | 6-33 | Leeds | Mount Pleasant | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 20 Aug 1977 | Bradford Northern | 9-20 | Featherstone Rovers | Odsal | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sun 21 Aug 1977 | Dewsbury | 5-12 | Castleford | Crown Flatt | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sun 21 Aug 1977 | Huddersfield | 17-20 | York | Fartown | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sun 21 Aug 1977 | Hull F.C. | 33-19 | Bramley | Boulevard | [2] | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sun 21 Aug 1977 | Keighley | 16-0 | Halifax | Lawkholme Lane | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sun 21 Aug 1977 | New Hunslet | 14-8 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Elland Road Greyhound Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sun 21 Aug 1977 | Wakefield Trinity | 23-10 | Doncaster | Belle Vue |
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 | Sat 27 Aug 1977 | Leeds | 18-18 | Hull F.C. | Headingley | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sun 28 Aug 1977 | Castleford | 23-17 | York | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sun 28 Aug 1977 | Keighley | 17-8 | New Hunslet | Lawkholme Lane | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sun 28 Aug 1977 | Wakefield Trinity | 2-12 | Featherstone Rovers | Belle Vue |
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 31 Aug 1977 | Hull F.C. | 19-11 | Leeds | Boulevard |
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 13 Sep 1977 | Hull F.C. | 5-19 | Featherstone Rovers | Boulevard | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Fri 17 Sep 1977 | Keighley | 4-14 | Castleford | Lawkholme Lane |
| 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 15 October 1977 | Castleford | 17-7 | Featherstone Rovers | Headingley | 6,318 | £4,528 | 1 | [3] [4] [5] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Castleford | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Featherstone Rovers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| Geoff Wraith | 1 | John Marsden | |||
| Terrence "Terry" Richardson | 2 | Steve Evans | |||
| John Joyner | 3 | John Gilbert | |||
| Philip Johnson | 4 | Steve Quinn | |||
| Steve Fenton | 5 | Ken Kellett | |||
| Bruce Burton | 6 | John Newlove | |||
| Clive Pickerill | 7 | Peter Butler | |||
| Tony Fisher | 8 | Jeff Townend | |||
| Robert Spurr | 9 | John "Keith" Bridges | |||
| Alf Weston | 10 | Vince Farrar (Captain) | |||
| James Huddlestone | 11 | Michael "Mick" Gibbins | |||
| Mal Reilly (Captain) | 12 | Richard 'Charlie' Stone | |||
| Geoffrey "Sammy" Lloyd | 13 | Keith Bell | |||
| Gary Stephens (for Clive Pickerill) | 14 | Neil Tuffs (for Steve Quinn) | |||
| Derek Woodall (for Tony Fisher) | 15 | Peter Smith (for Richard Stone) | |||
| Malcolm "Mal" Reilly | Coach | Keith Cotton | |||
| 17 | score | 7 | |||
| 4 | HT | 2 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Bruce Burton (2) | T | Peter Smith (1) | |||
| Goals | |||||
| Geoffrey "Sammy" Lloyd (5) | G | Steve Quinn (1) | |||
| G | Townsend (1) | ||||
| Drop Goals | |||||
| Bruce Burton (1) | DG | ||||
| Referee | Michael "Mick" J. Naughton (Widnes) | ||||
| White Rose Trophy for Man of the match | Bruce Burton - Castleford - | ||||
| sponsored by | |||||
| Competition Sponsor | Esso |
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.