| 1980–81 Yorkshire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Leeds |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Prevseason Link: | 1979 Yorkshire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1979–80 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1981 Yorkshire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1981–82 |
| No Of Teams: | 16 |
The 1980–81 Yorkshire Cup was the seventy-third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Leeds winning the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 8-7
The match was played at Fartown Ground, Huddersfield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 9,751 and receipts were £15,578
This was Leeds' eighth victory (and the second of two consecutive victories - for the third time within the sequence) in what has been eight times in the space of thirteen seasons.
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 | Sat 16 Aug 1980 | Leeds | 47-8 | York | Headingley | 2921 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sun 17 Aug 1980 | Bradford Northern | 10-6 | Batley | Odsal | 3173 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sun 17 Aug 1980 | Dewsbury | 5-15 | Bramley | Crown Flatt | 1100 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sun 17 Aug 1980 | Featherstone Rovers | 16-12 | Hull F.C. | Post Office Road | 7025 | [2] | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sun 17 Aug 1980 | Halifax | 8-18 | Castleford | Thrum Hall | 2926 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sun 17 Aug 1980 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 21-17 | Wakefield Trinity | Craven Park (1) | 7628 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sun 17 Aug 1980 | Hunslet | 22-4 | Doncaster | Mount Pleasant | 550 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sun 17 Aug 1980 | Keighley | 16-25 | Huddersfield | Lawkholme Lane | 1550 |
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 | Sun 24 Aug 1980 | Castleford | 26-25 | Bramley | 2215 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sun 24 Aug 1980 | Huddersfield | 20-13 | Bradford Northern | Fartown | 4080 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sun 24 Aug 1980 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 33-12 | Featherstone Rovers | Craven Park (1) | 9088 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sun 24 Aug 1980 | Leeds | 31-12 | Hunslet | Headingley | 3940 |
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 | Wed 10 Sep 1980 | Castleford | 7-11 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 7328 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Thu 11 Sep 1980 | Leeds | 17-13 | Huddersfield | Headingley | 4418 |
| 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 8 November 1980 | Leeds | 8-7 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Fartown | 9,751 | £15,578 | 1 | [3] [4] [5] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Leeds | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Hull Kingston Rovers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| Neil Hague (see note 2) | 1 | Ian Robinson | |||
| Alan Smith | 2 | Gary McHugh | |||
| David Smith | 3 | Mike Smith | |||
| John Atkinson (see note 3) | 4 | Phil Hogan | |||
| Willie Oulton (see note 4) | 5 | Wally Youngman | |||
| John Holmes | 6 | Dave Hall | |||
| Kevin Dick | 7 | Paul Harkin | |||
| Mick Harrison | 8 | Roy Holdstock | |||
| David Ward | 9 | xRaymond Pricehttp://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/raymond-price/summary.html | |||
| Steve Pitchford | 10 | Steve Crooks | |||
| Graham Eccles | 11 | Phil Lowe | |||
| Phil Cookson | 12 | Len Casey (c) | |||
| David Heron | 13 | Mick Crane | |||
| ? | 14 | ? | |||
| Carrol (for Phil Cookson) | 15 | Paul Rose (for Steve Crooks) | |||
| Robin Dewhurst | Coach | Roger Millward | |||
| 8 | score | 7 | |||
| 2 | HT | 7 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Alan Smith (1) | T | Gary McHugh (1) | |||
| Goals | |||||
| Kevin Dick (2) | G | Phil Hogan (2) | |||
| Drop Goals | |||||
| Kevin Dick (1) | DG | ||||
| Referee | Ronald "Ronnie" Campbell (Widnes) | ||||
| White Rose Trophy for Man of the match | Kevin Dick - Leeds - | ||||
| sponsored by | |||||
| Competition Sponsor | Webster's Brewery (Samuel Webster & Sons Ltd) |
1 * Fartown was the home ground of Huddersfield from 1878 to the end of the 1991-92 season to Huddersfield Town FC's Leeds Road stadium, and then to the McAlpine Stadium in 1994. Fartown remained as a sports/Rugby League ground but is now rather dilapidated, and is only used for staging amateur rugby league games.
2 * Neil Hague -The player number given is as shown in the Rothmans Yearbook 1990-91[4] and also 1991-92.[3] The RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] shows Neil Hague as a centre (numbered as 4)
3 * John Atkinson - The player number given is as shown in the Rothmans Yearbook 1990-91[4] and also 1991-92.[3] The RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] shows John Atkinson as winger (numbered as 5)
4 * Willie Oulton The player number given is as shown in the Rothmans Yearbook 1990-91[4] and also 1991-92.[3] The RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] shows Willie Oulton as the full back (numbered as 1)
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)