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1978–79 Yorkshire Cup
1978–79 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	16
Winners	Bradford Northern
Runners-up	York
	← 1977–78 1979–80 →

The 1978–79 Yorkshire Cup was the seventy-first occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

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

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Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	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	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	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

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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".
^ ^a ^b ^c "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
^ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
^ ^a ^b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.