1967 Yorkshire Cup

1967-68 Yorkshire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout championship

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1966	Seasons	1968 >

The 1967 Yorkshire Cup was the sixtieth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Hull KR won the trophy by beating Hull F.C. by the score of 9-6
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 16,729 and receipts were £5,515
This final was a repeat of the 1920-21 final, in the only other final, to date, to be contested by the two clubs, and in which Hull KR also defeated local neighbours and fierce rivals Hull F.C. in a closely contested match. In 1920 the score was 2-0; this time it was almost as close.
This is also the second consecutive year in which Hull Kingston Rovers had won the trophy

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^[1]^[2]

^[3]^[4]

Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Notes	Ref

1	Fri 1 Sep 1967	Castleford	7-13	Hull F.C.	Wheldon Road			^[5]
2	Fri 1 Sep 1967	Keighley	5-23	Wakefield Trinity	Lawkholme Lane			^[6]
3	Fri 1 Sep 1967	Leeds	25-10	Batley	Headingley
4	Sat 2 Sep 1967	Bradford Northern	15-16	Dewsbury	Odsal
5	Sat 2 Sep 1967	Bramley	4-7	Huddersfield	McLaren Field	5,070	1	^[4]
6	Sat 2 Sep 1967	Doncaster	10-28	Halifax	Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield
7	Sat 2 Sep 1967	Hunslet	14-8	Featherstone Rovers	Parkside
8	Sat 2 Sep 1967	York	4-22	Hull KR	Clarence Street

Round 2 - Quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Ref

1	Tue 12 Sep 1967	Halifax	2-11	Hull F.C.	Thrum Hall		^[5]
2	Tue 12 Sep 1967	Leeds	18-14	Hunslet	Headingley
3	Wed 13 Sep 1967	Huddersfield	11-11	Dewsbury	Fartown	7,380	^[4]
4	Wed 13 Sep 1967	Wakefield Trinity	13-13	Hull KR	Belle Vue		^[6]

Round 2 - Replays

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Ref

R1	Thu 14 Sep 1967	Dewsbury	5-4	Huddersfield	Crown Flatt	4,400	^[4]
R2	Fri 15 Sep 1967	Hull KR	14-5	Wakefield Trinity	Craven Park (1)		^[6]

Round 3 – Semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Tue 26 Sep 1967	Dewsbury	0-21	Hull KR	Crown Flatt
2	Wed 27 Sep 1967	Hull F.C.	31-6	Leeds	Boulevard	^[5]

Final

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref

	Saturday 14 October 1967	Hull KR		8-7		Hull F.C.	Headingley	16,729	£5,515	2	^[7]^[8]

Teams and scorers

Hull KR	№	Hull F.C.

	teams
Cyril Kellett	1	Arthur Keegan
Christopher Young	2	Norman Oliver
John Moore	3	David Doyle-Davidson
Dave Elliott	4	John Maloney
Alan Burwell	5	Geoff Stocks
Roger Millward	6	Terry Devonshire
Colin Cooper	7	Chris Davidson
William Holliday	8	Mick Harrison
Peter Flanagan	9	Alan McGlone
Brian Mennell	10	Eric Broom
Phil Lowe	11	John Edson
John Hickson	12	Jim Macklin
Terry Major	13	Cyril Sykes
Frank Foster (for John Hickson)	14
Colin Hutton	Coach	Johnny Whiteley

9	score	6
7	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
Alan Burwell (1)	T
Roger Millward (1)	T	Chris Davidson (1)
	Goals
Cyril Kellett (1)	G	John Maloney (1)
	G	Chris Davidson (1)
	Drop Goals
	DG
Referee		Dennis Davies (Manchester)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match		Chris Davidson - Hull F.C. - Scrum-half/Halfback
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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


Bramley	4

Huddersfield	7
		Huddersfield	11 (4)

		Dewsbury	11 (5)
Bradford Northern	15

Dewsbury	16
				Dewsbury	0

				Hull KR	21
Keighley	5

Wakefield Trinity	23
		Wakefield Trinity	13 (5)

		Hull KR	13 (14)
York	4

Hull KR	22
						Hull KR	8

						Hull F.C.	7
Doncaster	10

Halifax	28
		Halifax	2

		Hull F.C.	11
Castleford	7

Hull F.C.	13
				Hull F.C.	31

				Leeds	6
Leeds	25

Batley	10
		Leeds	18

		Hunslet	14
Hunslet	14

Featherstone Rovers	8

Notes and comments

1 * The first Yorkshire Cup match played by Bramley at the new stadium, McLaren Field
2 * 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".
↑ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
↑ HC&AC Committee (1968). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1968 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
1 2 3 4 "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1968" (PDF).
1 2 3 "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
1 2 3 J C Lindley and D W Armitage (1973). 100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973. Wakefield Trinity Centenary Committee. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
↑ 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.

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