1992–93 Yorkshire Cup

1992 Yorkshire Cup
1992 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	18
Winners	Wakefield Trinity
Runners-up	Sheffield Eagles

The 1992 Yorkshire Cup was the eighty-fifth and last occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Wakefield Trinity won the trophy by beating Sheffield Eagles by the score of 29-16

Background

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants but one "leavers", Scarborough Pirates having folded after just one season and a large loss, and so the total of entries decreased by one from last season, to a total of eighteen.
This in turn resulted in the necessity to continue with a preliminary round to reduce the number of clubs entering the first round to sixteen.

Competition and results

[1]

Preliminary round

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Attendance	Notes	Ref
P1	Sun 23 Aug 1992	Castleford Tigers	10-16	Bradford Northern	Wheldon Road	4988	[lower-alpha 1]
P2	Sun 23 Aug 1992	Huddersfield	36-12	Ryedale-York	Fartown	1619	[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3]	[2][3]

Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Attendance	Notes	Ref
1	Fri 11 Sep 1992	Sheffield Eagles	34-14	Halifax	Don Valley Stadium	3596
2	Sun 13 Sep 1992	Bradford Northern	34-22	Bramley	Odsal	3108
3	Sun 13 Sep 1992	Featherstone Rovers	40-8	Dewsbury	Post Office Road	2468	[lower-alpha 4]
4	Sun 13 Sep 1992	Huddersfield	16-8	Batley	Leeds Road	1714
5	Sun 13 Sep 1992	Hull F.C.	14-6	Hull Kingston Rovers	Boulevard	8825		[4]
6	Sun 13 Sep 1992	Leeds	28-20	Hunslet	Headingley	5952
7	Sun 13 Sep 1992	Nottingham City	4-30	Keighley Cougars	Harvey Hadden Stadium	327
8	Sun 13 Sep 1992	Wakefield Trinity	54-14	Doncaster	Belle Vue	3229

Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Attendance	Ref
1	Wed 23 Sep 1992	Bradford Northern	8-17	Sheffield Eagles	Odsal	3333
2	Wed 23 Sep 1992	Featherstone Rovers	18-8	Huddersfield	Post Office Road	2385
3	Wed 23 Sep 1992	Hull F.C.	26-16	Leeds	Boulevard	6609	[4]
4	Wed 23 Sep 1992	Wakefield Trinity	22-16	Keighley Cougars	Belle Vue	2508

Round 3 – Semi-finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Attendance	Notes	Ref
1	Tue 06 Oct 1992	Sheffield Eagles	12-8	Hull F.C.	Don Valley Stadium	3017		[4]
2	Wed 07 Oct 1992	Featherstone Rovers	8-22	Wakefield Trinity	Post Office Road	5544

Final

The match was played at Elland Road, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 7,918.

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Attendance	Notes	Ref
	Sunday 18 October 1992	Wakefield Trinity	29-16	Sheffield Eagles	Elland Road	7,918	[lower-alpha 5]	[5]

Teams and scorers

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Wakefield Trinity	№	Sheffield Eagles

	teams
Gary Spencer	1	Garry Jack
David Jones	2	Mark Gamson
Andrew "Andy" Mason	3	Richard Price
Peter Benson	4	David Mycoe
Andrew "Andy" Wilson	5	David Plange
Nigel Wright	6	Mark Aston
Geoff Bagnall	7	Tim Lumb
Mark Webster	8	Paul Broadbent
Nigel Bell	9	Mick Cook
John Glancy	10	Dale Laughton
Gary Price	11	Bruce McGuire
Darren Fritz	12	Paul Carr
Richard Slater	13	Anthony Farrell
Richard Goddard	14	Andy Young
Billy Conway	15	Hugh Waddell
David Topliss	Coach	Gary Hetherington

29	score	16
11	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
Geoff Bagnall (1)	T	Bruce McGuire (2)
Andrew "Andy" Mason (1)	T	Mark Gamson (1)
Gary Price (1)	T
Richard Slater (1)	T
Gary Spencer (1)	T
	Goals
Peter Benson (3)	G	David Mycoe (2)
Nigel Wright (1)	G
Nigel Wright (1)	DG
Referee		unknown ()
White Rose man of the match		Nigel Wright	?
sponsored by
Competition Sponsor		John Smith's Brewery Tadcaster

Scoring - Try = four points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point

The road to success

The following chart excludes any preliminary round fixtures/results

First round		Second round		Semi-finals		Final

Featherstone Rovers	40

Dewsbury	8
		Featherstone Rovers	18

		Huddersfield	8
Huddersfield	16

Batley	8
				Featherstone Rovers	8

				Wakefield Trinity	22
Wakefield Trinity	54

Doncaster	14
		Wakefield Trinity	22

		Keighley Cougars	16
Nottingham City	4

Keighley Cougars	30
						Wakefield Trinity	29

						Sheffield Eagles	16
Bradford Northern	34

Bramley	22
		Bradford Northern	8

		Sheffield Eagles	17
Sheffield Eagles	34

Halifax	14
				Sheffield Eagles	12

				Hull F.C.	8
Hull F.C.	14

Hull Kingston Rovers	6
		Hull F.C.	26

		Leeds	16
Leeds	28

Hull Kingston Rovers	20

Comments

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)

Postscript

To date, this was the last season for the Yorkshire (and Lancashire Cup) competitions, which except for the break due to the two World Wars, had taken place annually since its inauguration in the 1905–06 season.
It was fitting that all the major players, with the possible exceptions of Keighley Cougars, Bramley, Doncaster and Sheffield Eagles had their name inscribed on the trophy, during the eighty-five occasions on which the tournament took place, and possible just as well the no "none-Yorkshire" club managed to win the trophy during that period! It was only after the two county finals had been played that it was announced that both competitions were to be scrapped; news which came as a major surprise and shock to the fans. The reasons given by the ruling body, the Rugby Football League, were that it was deemed the cup was adding to fixture congestion for more successful sides and also that a local county cup did not fit the modern image of Rugby League.

Records from the Yorkshire Cup competition

	Record		Holder
In Final	Record
	Most appearances	21	Leeds
	Most wins	17	Leeds
	Most consecutive wins	4	Huddersfield	1913-14, 14-15, 1919 Spring & 1919 Autumn
		3	Hull F.C.
		2	Bradford Northern (twice)
		2	Castleford
		2	Halifax
		2	Hull Kingston Rovers
		2	Leeds (3 times)
		2	Wakefield Trinity (twice)
	Most consecutive appearances	4	Huddersfield	1913-14, 14-15, 1919 Spring & 1919 Autumn
		3	Hull F.C. (twice)
		3	Wakefield Trinity
	Highest Score	34-8	Leeds	v Dewsbury 1972
	Highest Agg score	31-24	Castleford	v Hull F.C. 1986
	Lowest Agg score	2-0	on 4 occasions	1920,25,42 & 1944
	Widest margin	30-2	Huddersfield	v Hull F.C. 1914
	Biggest Attendance		36000 - Headingley)	Bradford Northern v Huddersfield 1949
	Smallest Attendance		5536 - Belle Vue	Castleford v Hull Kingston Rovers 1971
	Highest Receipts		£83,591 - Elland Road	Leeds v Castleford 1988

	Individual in a final
	Most tries	4	Stan Moorhouse	Huddersfield v Leeds 1919
	Most goals	6	David Stephenson	Leeds v Castleford Tigers 1988
	Most points	16 (4g+2t)	Graham Steadman	Castleford Tigers v Bradford Northern 1991
		14 (5g+1t)	Martin Ketteridge	Castleford Tigers v Hull F.C. 1986

Players Records in all finals
	Most Appearances	10	Douglas Clark	Huddersfield 1909, 10, 11, 13, 14, 19 Spring, 19 Autumn, 23, 25 & 1926
	Most Tries	6	Stan Moorhouse	Huddersfield 1911, 14 & 1919 Autumn
		6	Stanley "Stan" Smith	Leeds 1934, 35 & 1937
		6	Alan Smith	Leeds 1968, 70, 79 & 1980
	Most Goals	19	Neil Fox	Wakefield Trinity, Hull Kingston Rovers & Bradford Northern 1958, 60, 61, 64, 75 & 1978
	Most Points	53	Neil Fox	clubs/games as above

In competition
	Highest Score	6-100	Nottingham City	v Hull Kingston Rovers 1990
	Other record scores at the time	94-12	Castleford	v Huddersfield 1988
		8-76	Hunslet	v Halifax 1972
		73-5	Wakefield Trinity	v Bradford Northern 1961
		67-0	Huddersfield	v Bramley 1913
		68-2	Bradford	v Bramley 1906
	Highest score v junior club	79-5	Huddersfield	v Yorkshire Amateurs 1948
	Highest aggregate score	140-5	Huddersfield	v Yorkshire Amateurs 1948

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References

"Rugby League Project".
"Yorkshire Cup Prelim rd 1992 v Ryedale-York" (PDF).
Yorkshire Cup Prelim rd 1992 Huddersfield v Ryedale York. Match Programme. Huddersfield RLFC.
"HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
Yorkshire County Rugby League Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup 1992. YCRL Committee.
Robert Gate (1991). Guinness Rugby League Fact Book. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 978-085112949 5.
Spotter Series. Spotter book of Rugby League Facts. Dorset Publ.

Notes

The first Yorkshire Cup match played by Castleford Tigers since renaming their stadium The Jungle
The first Yorkshire Cup match played by Huddersfield since moving into Huddersfield Town's Leeds Road stadium
Last ever competitive fixture at Fartown
Dewsbury had moved to Batley's Mount Pleasant while awaiting construction of their new stadium, but played no Yorkshire Cup matches at this temporary venue
Elland Road, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds United A.F.C. with a capacity of 37,914 (The record attendance was 57,892 set on 15 March 1967 for a cup match Leeds v Sunderland). The ground was originally established in 1897 by Holbeck RLFC who played there until their demise after the conclusion of the 1903-04 season.

External links

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[RLP.orgMisc-1] "Rugby League Project".

[Huddprogvyork1992Misc-5] "Yorkshire Cup Prelim rd 1992 v Ryedale-York" (PDF).

[YCProgMisc-6] Yorkshire Cup Prelim rd 1992 Huddersfield v Ryedale York. Match Programme. Huddersfield RLFC.

[HullMisc-8] "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".

[ProgMisc-10] Yorkshire County Rugby League Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup 1992. YCRL Committee.

[GuinRLfactsMisc-11] Robert Gate (1991). Guinness Rugby League Fact Book. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 978-085112949 5.

[SpotMisc-12] Spotter Series. Spotter book of Rugby League Facts. Dorset Publ.

[2] The first Yorkshire Cup match played by Castleford Tigers since renaming their stadium The Jungle

[3] The first Yorkshire Cup match played by Huddersfield since moving into Huddersfield Town's Leeds Road stadium

[4] Last ever competitive fixture at Fartown

[7] Dewsbury had moved to Batley's Mount Pleasant while awaiting construction of their new stadium, but played no Yorkshire Cup matches at this temporary venue

[9] Elland Road, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds United A.F.C. with a capacity of 37,914 (The record attendance was 57,892 set on 15 March 1967 for a cup match Leeds v Sunderland). The ground was originally established in 1897 by Holbeck RLFC who played there until their demise after the conclusion of the 1903-04 season.