1976–77 Yorkshire Cup

April 2022 1976–77 Yorkshire Cup Regional knockout championship Leeds Winners Featherstone Rovers 1975 Yorkshire Cup 1975–76 1977 Yorkshire Cup 1977–78 16 The 1976–77 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-ninth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Leeds won the trophy by beating Featherstone Rovers by the score of 16–12. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 7,645 and receipts were £5,198. This was Leeds' sixth victory (and the second of two consecutive victories) in what would be eight times in the space of thirteen seasons. It as also Featherstone Rovers's first of two consecutive Yorkshire Cup final appearances, both of which resulted in a defeat. 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 Rugby League Project http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/competitions/yorkshire-cup/results.html Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding John Player Yearbook 1975–76 1991 Queen Anne Press Round 1 Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef1Sun 22 Aug 1976Batley11–27KeighleyMount Pleasant2Sun 22 Aug 1976Bradford Northern9–11LeedsOdsal3Sun 22 Aug 1976Bramley7–15Wakefield TrinityMcLaren Field4Sun 22 Aug 1976Doncaster5–54Featherstone RoversBentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield5Sun 22 Aug 1976Halifax21–11YorkThrum Hall6Sun 22 Aug 1976Huddersfield18–26DewsburyFartown7Sun 22 Aug 1976Hull Kingston Rovers12–18CastlefordCraven Park (1)8Sun 22 Aug 1976New Hunslet16–8Hull F.C.Elland Road Greyhound StadiumHULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results http://www.hullfc.com/first-team/matches/1976 Round 2 - Quarter-finals Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef1Fri 27 Aug 1976Castleford12–12LeedsWheldon Road 2Sun 29 Aug 1976Halifax14–26DewsburyThrum Hall3Sun 29 Aug 1976New Hunslet24–1KeighleyElland Road Greyhound Stadium4Sun 29 Aug 1976Wakefield Trinity9–16Featherstone RoversBelle Vue Round 2 - replays Involved 1 match and 2 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRefRTue 31 Aug 1976Leeds21–20CastlefordHeadingley Round 3 – Semi-finals Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef1Wed 8 Sep 1976Featherstone Rovers34–0New HunsletPost Office Road2Tue 21 Sep 1976Leeds31–15DewsburyHeadingley Final Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRefSaturday 16 October 1976Leeds16–12Featherstone RoversHeadingley76455198The attendance is given as 7,644 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject but the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92 and 1990-91 gives the attendance as one more at 7,645Headingley, 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.Raymond Fletcher and David Howes Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992 1991 Queen Anne Press 0 35617852 8Raymond Fletcher and David Howes Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991 1990 Queen Anne Press 0 35617851 XYorkshire County Rugby League Committee Match Programme ESSO Yorkshitre Cup final 1976 Yorkshire CRL Teams and scorers LeedsNo.Featherstone Rovers teams Marshall1Harold BoxNeil Hague2Graham BraySyd Hynes3Paul CoventryLes Dyl4Steve QuinnDavid Smith5Ken KellettJohn Holmes6John NewlovePeter Banner7Dale FennellRoy Dickinson8Michael "Mick" GibbinsDavid Ward9John "Keith" BridgesSteve Pitchford10Vince FarrarGraham Eccles11Richard 'Charlie' StoneChris Burton12Peter SmithPhil Cookson13Keith BellChristopher Sanderson14Neil Tuffs?15Johnny Spells (for Keith Bell)Syd HynesCoachKeith Cotton 16score1211HT5 Scorers Tries Les Dyl (2)TGraham Bray (1)Graham Eccles (1)TPeter Smith (1)Phil Cookson (1)T Goals Marshall (2)GSteve Quinn (3)RefereeMichael "Mick" J. Naughton (Widnes)White Rose Trophy for Man of the matchLes Dyl - Leeds - CEsponsored byCompetition SponsorEsso Scoring - Try = three points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point The road to success First round Second round Semi-finals Final Bradford Bramley Wakefield Trinity Leeds Keighley New Blackpool York Batley Hull Kingston Rovers Pontefract Dewsbury Huddersfield Hull Halifax Hunslet bye Bradford Leeds Keighley York Hull Kingston Rovers Huddersfield Halifax Hunslet Bradford Keighley Hull Kingston Rovers Halifax Bradford 8 Hull Kingston Rovers 5 See also 1976–77 Northern Rugby Football League season Rugby league county cups Notes References External links Saints Heritage Society https://web.archive.org/web/20120302024842/http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=9 2 March 2012 1896–97 Northern Rugby Football Union season at wigan.rlfans.com https://web.archive.org/web/20140202123900/http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=319 2 February 2014 Hull&Proud Fixtures & Results 1896/1897 Widnes Vikings - One team, one passion Season In Review - 1896-97 The Northern Union at warringtonwolves.org Category:1976 in English rugby league Category:RFL Yorkshire Cup