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1965–66 Yorkshire Cup

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1965–66 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams16
WinnersBradford Northern
Runners-upHunslet

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

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

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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

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Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Fri 3 Sep 1965 Hunslet 8-2 Doncaster Parkside
2 Sat 4 Sep 1965 Batley 9-37 Halifax Mount Pleasant
3 Sat 4 Sep 1965 Castleford 22-8 Featherstone Rovers Wheldon Road
47 Sat 4 Sep 1965 Dewsbury 4-27 Huddersfield Crown Flatt 2,800 [4]
5 Sat 4 Sep 1965 Hull Kingston Rovers 17-9 York Craven Park (1)
6 Sat 4 Sep 1965 Keighley 2-19 Bradford Northern Lawkholme Lane
7 Sat 4 Sep 1965 Leeds 40-4 Bramley Headingley
8 Sat 4 Sep 1965 Wakefield Trinity 4-8 Hull F.C. Belle Vue [5]

Round 2 - Quarter-finals

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Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Mon? 13 Sep 1965 Hunslet 9-8 Hull F.C. Parkside [5]
2 Tue 14 Sep 1965 Castleford 25-8 Halifax Wheldon Road
3 Wed 15 Sep 1965 Bradford Northern 12-6 Hull Kingston Rovers Odsal
4 Wed 15 Sep 1965 Huddersfield 16-6 Leeds Fartown 4,008 [4]

Round 3 – Semi-finals

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Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Mon? 27 Sep 1965 Hunslet 17-10 Castleford Parkside 9,347
2 Wed 29 Sep 1965 Bradford Northern 7-7 Huddersfield Odsal

Semi-final - replays

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Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
R Thu 30 Sep 1965 Huddersfield 4-7 Bradford Northern Fartown

Final

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Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 16 October 1965 Bradford Northern 17-8 Hunslet Headingley 17,522 £4,359 1 [6][7]

Teams and scorers

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Bradford Northern No. Hunslet
teams
Joe Scattergood? 1 Billy Langton
Lionel Williamson 2 Barry Lee
Ian Brooke 3 Geoff Shelton
Alan Rhodes 4 Arthur Render
Willie Walker 5 Tommy Thompson
Dave Stockwell 6 Alan Preece
Thomas Smales 7 Alan Marchant
Albert Tonkinson 8 Dennis Hartley
Dennis Morgan? 9 Bernard Prior
Dave Hill 10 William "Billy" Baldwinson/Ken Eyre
G Ashton 11 Bill Ramsey
Terry Clawson 12 Geoff Gunney
Johnny Rae 13 Fred Ward
Gus Risman Coach Fred Ward
17 score 8
7 HT 3
Scorers
Tries
Lionel Williamson (2) T Barry Lee (1)
Ian Brooke (1) T Tommy Thompson (1)
T
T
Goals
Terry Clawson (4) G Billy Langton (1)
G
Drop Goals
DG
Referee Eric Lawrenson (Warrington)

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

The road to success

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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

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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

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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

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References

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