1981–82 Yorkshire Cup

1981–82 Yorkshire Cup
1981–82 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	16
Winners	Castleford
Runners-up	Bradford Northern
	← 1980–81 1982–83 →

The 1981–82 Yorkshire Cup was the 74th occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Castleford won the trophy by beating Bradford Northern by the score of 10–5

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 5,852 and receipts were £10,359

1981 is the start of an incredible eleven years in which Castleford. previously only once winners in 1977, will make eight appearances in the Yorkshire Cup final, winning four and ending as runner-up in four occasions.

It is also the first of two successive years when Bradford Northern played in the Yorkshire Cup final, and in both cases they ended as runner-up

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]

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 14 Aug 1981	Hull Kingston Rovers	34–7	Huddersfield	Craven Park (1)	7030		^[3]
2	Sun 16 Aug 1981	Castleford	18–16	Featherstone Rovers	Wheldon Road	3092
3	Sun 16 Aug 1981	Doncaster	11–12	Batley	Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield	443
4	Sun 16 Aug 1981	Halifax	5–33	Bradford Northern	Thrum Hall	4164
5	Sun 16 Aug 1981	Hull F.C.	16–19	Leeds	Boulevard	11194		^[4]
6	Sun 16 Aug 1981	Keighley	23–13	Bramley	Lawkholme Lane	1003
7	Sun 16 Aug 1981	Wakefield Trinity	18–6	Dewsbury	Belle Vue	2817
8	Sun 16 Aug 1981	York	26–11	Hunslet	Clarence Street	3000	1

Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att

1	Sun 23 Aug 1981	Castleford	42–30	York	Wheldon Road	3453
2	Sun 23 Aug 1981	Hull Kingston Rovers	22–12	Wakefield Trinity	Craven Park (1)	8907
3	Sun 23 Aug 1981	Keighley	12–28	Batley	Lawkholme Lane	1374
4	Sun 23 Aug 1981	Leeds	5–11	Bradford Northern	Headingley	7526

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

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

1	Wed 2 Sep 1981	Castleford	40–3	Batley	Wheldon Road	3014	^[5]
2	Wed 2 Sep 1981	Hull Kingston Rovers	11–12	Bradford Northern	Craven Park (1)	9878

Final

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

	Saturday 3 October 1981	Castleford		10–5		Bradford Northern	Headingley	5,852	£10,359	2 3	^[6]^[7]^[8]

Teams and scorers

^[1]^[8]

Castleford	No.	Bradford Northern

	teams
George Claughton	1	Keith Mumby
Terrence "Terry" Richardson	2	David Barends
Steve Fenton	3	Gary Hale
Gary Hyde	4	Alan Parker
Geoffrey "Geoff" Morris	5	Les Gant
John Joyner	6	Ellery Hanley
Robert "Bob" Beardmore	7	Alan Redfearn
Alan Hardy	8	Jeff Grayshon
Robert Spurr	9	Brian Noble
Barry Johnson	10	Phil Sanderson
David Finch	11	Gary Van Bellen
Kevin Ward	12	Graham Idle
Andrew Timson	13	Alan Rathbone
Ian Birkby	14	David Redfearn (for Phil Sanderson)
Paul Norton (for Alan Hardy)	15	Dick Jasiewicz (for Gary Van Bellan)
Malcolm "Mal" Reilly	Coach	Peter Fox

10	score	5
5	HT	2

	Scorers
	Tries
Gary Hyde (1)	T	Alan Parker (1)
John Joyner (1)	T
	Goals
David Finch (2)	G	Ellery Hanley (1)
Referee		M. Robin Whitfield (Widnes)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match		Barry Johnson – Castleford – Prop
sponsored by
Competition Sponsor		Webster's Brewery (Samuel Webster & Sons Ltd)

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

The road to success

First round		Second round		Semi-finals		Final

Castleford	18

Featherstone Rovers	16
		Castleford	42

		York	30
York	26

Hunslet	11
				Castleford	40

				Batley	3
Keighley	23

Bramley	13
		Keighley	12

		Batley	28
Doncaster	11

Batley	12
						Castleford	10

						Bradford Northern	5
Hull Kingston Rovers	34

Huddersfield	7
		Hull Kingston Rovers	22

		Wakefield Trinity	12
Wakefield Trinity	18

Dewsbury	6
				Hull Kingston Rovers	11

				Bradford Northern	12
Hull F.C.	16

Leeds	19
		Leeds	5

		Bradford Northern	11
Halifax	5

Bradford Northern	33

Notes and comments

1 * Hunslet had moved to Leeds United's Elland Road at the start of the season

2 * The attendance is given as 5,876 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject^[1] but the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991–92^[7] and 1990–91^[8] gives the attendance as twenty-four less at 5,852

3 * 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 ^c "Rugby League Project".
^ HC&AC committee (1982). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1981–82 (price 60p). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
^ ^a ^b "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1981–82" (PDF).
^ "HULL&PROUD – Stats – Fixtures & Results".
^ Castleford RLFC Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup semi-final 1981. Castleford RLFC.
^ Yorkshire County Rugby League Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup 1981. YCRL Committee.
^ ^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.