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1975–76 Yorkshire Cup
1975–76 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	16
Winners	Leeds
Runners-up	Hull Kingston Rovers
	← 1974–75 1976–77 →

The 1975–76 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-eighth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Leeds won the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 15-11

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 5,743 and receipts were £3,617

This was Leeds' fifth victory (and the first of two consecutive victories) in what would be eight times in the space of thirteen seasons.

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]

Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref

1	Fri 29 Aug 1975	Castleford	16-16	Hull F.C.	Wheldon Road	^[3]
2	Sat 30 Aug 1975	Huddersfield	7-19	Featherstone Rovers	Fartown
3	Sat 30 Aug 1975	Leeds	32-5	Halifax	Headingley
4	Sun 31 Aug 1975	Bradford Northern	28-12	Bramley	Odsal
5	Sun 31 Aug 1975	Doncaster	11-18	Keighley	Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield
6	Sun 31 Aug 1975	Hull Kingston Rovers	26-9	Wakefield Trinity	Craven Park (1)
7	Sun 31 Aug 1975	New Hunslet	20-5	Batley	Elland Road Greyhound Stadium
8	Sun 31 Aug 1975	York	18-12	Dewsbury	Clarence Street

Round 1 - replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team		Score		Away team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref

R	Tue 2 Sep 1975	Hull F.C.		15-16		Castleford	Boulevard				^[3]

Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue

1	Sat 13 Sep 1975	Bradford Northern	2-22	Leeds	Odsal
2	Sun 14 Sep 1975	Featherstone Rovers	8-5	Castleford	Post Office Road
3	Sun 14 Sep 1975	New Hunslet	7-15	Hull Kingston Rovers	Elland Road Greyhound Stadium
4	Sun 14 Sep 1975	York	13-16	Keighley	Clarence Street

Round 3 – Semi-finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue

1	Tue 23 Sep 1975	Hull Kingston Rovers	19-16	Featherstone Rovers	Craven Park (1)
2	Wed 1 Oct 1975	Keighley	2-11	Leeds	Lawkholme Lane

Final

Game No	Fixture date	Home team		Score		Away team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref

	Saturday 15 November 1975	Leeds		15-11		Hull Kingston Rovers	Headingley	5,743	£3,617	1 2	^[4]^[5]

Teams and scorers

Leeds	№	Hull Kingston Rovers

	teams
Marshall	1	Richard Wallace
Alan Smith	2	Gerald "Ged" Dunn
Neil Hague	3	Alan Burwell
Les Dyl	4	Bernard Watson
John Atkinson	5	Clive Sullivan
John Holmes	6	Glyn Turner
Syd Hynes	7	Roger Millward
Mick Harrison	8	John Millington
Ian Payne	9	Clifford "Cliff" Dickinson
Steve Pitchford	10	Steve Lyons
Graham Eccles	11	Paul Rose
Ray Batten	12	Neil Fox
Phil Cookson	13	Mick Hughes/R. Hughes
Christopher Sanderson	14	?
Roy Dickinson (for Steve Pitchford)	15	Roy Holdstock (for Hughes)
Syd Hynes	Coach	Arthur Bunting

15	score	11
7	HT	3

	Scorers
	Tries
Les Dyl (1)	T	Clive Sullivan (1)
Phil Cookson (1)	T	Neil Fox (1)
	Goals
John Holmes (4)	G	Neil Fox (2)
	Drop Goals
John Holmes (1)	DG	Roger Millward (1)
Referee		J. V. Moss (Manchester)
Man of the match		Neil Fox - Hull KR - Second-row
sponsored by		Esso
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match

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

^[5]

The road to success

First round		Second round		Semi-finals		Final

York	18

Dewsbury	12
		York	13

		Keighley	16
Doncaster	11

Keighley	18
				Keighley	2

				Leeds	11
Bradford Northern	28

Bramley	12
		Bradford Northern	2

		Leeds	22
Leeds	32

Halifax	5
						Leeds	15

						Hull Kingston Rovers	1
New Hunslet	20

Batley	5
		New Hunslet	7

		Hull Kingston Rovers	15
Hull Kingston Rovers	26

Wakefield Trinity	9
				Hull Kingston Rovers	19

				Featherstone Rovers	16
Huddersfield	7

Featherstone Rovers	19
		Featherstone Rovers	8

		Castleford	5
Castleford	16 (16)

Hull F.C.	16 (15)

Notes and comments

1 * The attendance is given as 5,304 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject^[1] but the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92^[4] and 1990-91^[5] gives the attendance at 5,734

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

^ ^a ^b "Rugby League Project".
^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1975). John Player Yearbook 1975–76. Queen Anne Press.
^ ^a ^b "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
^ ^a ^b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
^ ^a ^b ^c Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.