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1965–66 Yorkshire Cup

1965–66 Yorkshire Cup

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The 1965–66 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-eighth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

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Bradford Northern winning the trophy by beating Hunslet by the score of 17-8

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 17,522 and receipts were £4,359

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

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Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

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Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

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Round 3 – Semi-finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

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Semi-final - replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

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Final

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Teams and scorers

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Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points

The road to success

First round Second round Semi-finals Final
            
Keighley 2
Bradford Northern 19
Bradford Northern 12
Hull Kingston Rovers 6
Hull Kingston Rovers 17
York 9
Bradford Northern 7 (7)
Huddersfield 7 (4)
Dewsbury 4
Huddersfield 27
Huddersfield 16
Leeds 6
Leeds 40
Bramley 4
Bradford Northern 17
Hunslet 8
Hunslet 8
Doncaster 2
Hunslet 9
Hull F.C. 8
Wakefield Trinity 4
Hull F.C. 8
Hunslet 17
Castleford 10
Castleford 22
Featherstone Rovers 8
Castleford 25
Halifax 8
Batley 9
Halifax 37

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)

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Rugby League Project".
  2. [2]
    Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. [3]
    HC&AC Committee (1966). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1966 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
  4. [4]
    "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1966" (PDF).
  5. [5]
    "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  6. [6]
    Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  7. [7]
    Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
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