1978–79 Yorkshire Cup
The 1978–79 Yorkshire Cup was the seventy-first occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
| 1978–79 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 16 |
| Winners | Bradford Northern |
| Runners-up | York |
Bradford Northern won the trophy by beating York by the score of 18-8
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 10,429 and receipts were £9,188
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
Round 1
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun 20 Aug 1978 | Batley | 8-24 | Halifax | Mount Pleasant | ||||||
| 2 | Sun 20 Aug 1978 | Bradford Northern | 24-23 | Leeds | Odsal | ||||||
| 3 | Sun 20 Aug 1978 | Bramley | 4-13 | Hull F.C. | McLaren Field | [2] | |||||
| 4 | Sun 20 Aug 1978 | Castleford | 18-11 | Dewsbury | Wheldon Road | ||||||
| 5 | Sun 20 Aug 1978 | Doncaster | 5-20 | Keighley | Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield | ||||||
| 6 | Sun 20 Aug 1978 | Featherstone Rovers | 23-8 | Huddersfield | Post Office Road | ||||||
| 7 | Sun 20 Aug 1978 | Wakefield Trinity | 11-16 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Belle Vue | ||||||
| 8 | Sun 20 Aug 1978 | York | 25-19 | New Hunslet | Clarence Street |
Round 2 - Quarter-finals
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun 27 Aug 1978 | Bradford Northern | 28-17 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Odsal | ||||||
| 2 | Sun 27 Aug 1978 | Featherstone Rovers | 8-20 | Hull F.C. | Post Office Road | [2] | |||||
| 3 | Sun 27 Aug 1978 | Halifax | 20-8 | Castleford | Thrum Hall | ||||||
| 4 | Sun 27 Aug 1978 | York | 13-6 | Keighley | Clarence Street |
Round 3 – Semi-finals
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 13 Sep 1978 | Bradford Northern | 12-7 | Hull F.C. | Odsal | [2] | |||||
| 2 | Tue 19 Sep 1978 | Halifax | 2-4 | York | Thrum Hall |
Final
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 28 October 1978 | Bradford Northern | 18-8 | York | Headingley | 10,429 | £9,188 | 1 | [3][4] |
Teams and scorers
| Bradford Northern | № | York |
|---|---|---|
| teams | ||
| Keith Mumby | 1 | Gary Smith |
| David Barends | 2 | Terry Morgan |
| Les Gant | 3 | Terry Day |
| Derrick Parker | 4 | Derek Foster |
| David Redfearn | 5 | Gary Nicholson |
| Ian Slater | 6 | Barry Banks |
| Alan Redfearn | 7 | Paul Harkin |
| Jimmy Thompson | 8 | David Dunkerley |
| Tony Fisher | 9 | Ron Wileman |
| Colin Forsyth | 10 | Billy Harris |
| Neil Fox | 11 | Alan Rhodes |
| Dennis Trotter | 12 | Barry Hollis |
| Bob Haigh | 13 | Stephen/Steven "Steve" Cooper |
| Johnny Wolford (for Ian Slater) | 14 | John Crossley, Jr. (for Terry Day) |
| Graham Joyce (for Colin Forsyth) | 15 | Terry Ramshaw (for Barry Hollis) |
| Peter Fox | Coach | ?? |
| 18 | score | 8 |
| 7 | HT | 5 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| Les Gant (1) | T | Gary Smith (1) |
| Derrick Parker (1) | T | |
| Alan Redfearn (1) | T | |
| Bob Haigh (1) | T | |
| Goals | ||
| Neil Fox (3) | G | Barry Banks (2) |
| Drop Goals | ||
| DG | Barry Hollis (1) | |
| Referee | Michael "Mick" J. Naughton (Widnes) | |
| White Rose Trophy for Man of the match | Bob Haigh - Bradford Northern - loose forward | |
| sponsored by | ||
| Competition Sponsor | Esso |
Scoring - Try = three points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point
The road to success
| First round | Second round | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 28 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 25 | ||||||||||||||||||
| New Hunslet | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doncaster | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
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)
References
- "Rugby League Project".
- "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
- Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
- Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.