1992 Yorkshire Cup
The 1992 Yorkshire Cup was the eighty-fifth and last occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Wakefield Trinity won the trophy by beating Sheffield Eagles by the score of 29-16
1992 Yorkshire Cup | |
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Structure | Regional knockout championship |
Teams | 18 |
Winners | Wakefield Trinity |
Runners-up | Sheffield Eagles |
Background
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants but one "leavers", Scarborough Pirates having folded after just one season and a large loss, and so the total of entries decreased by one from last season, to a total of eighteen.
This in turn resulted in the necessity to continue with a preliminary round to reduce the number of clubs entering the first round to sixteen.
Competition and Results
Preliminary Round
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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P1 | Sun 23 Aug 1992 | Castleford Tigers | 10-16 | Bradford Northern | Wheldon Road | 4988 | 1 | ||||
P2 | Sun 23 Aug 1992 | Huddersfield | 36-12 | Ryedale-York | Fartown | 1619 | 2 | Last ever competitive fixture at Fartown[2][3] |
Round 1
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs
Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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1 | Fri 11 Sep 1992 | Sheffield Eagles | 34-14 | Halifax | Don Valley Stadium | 3596 | |||||
2 | Sun 13 Sep 1992 | Bradford Northern | 34-22 | Bramley | Odsal | 3108 | |||||
3 | Sun 13 Sep 1992 | Featherstone Rovers | 40-8 | Dewsbury | Post Office Road | 2468 | 3 | ||||
4 | Sun 13 Sep 1992 | Huddersfield | 16-8 | Batley | Leeds Road | 1714 | |||||
5 | Sun 13 Sep 1992 | Hull F.C. | 14-6 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Boulevard | 8825 | [4] | ||||
6 | Sun 13 Sep 1992 | Leeds | 28-20 | Hunslet | Headingley | 5952 | |||||
7 | Sun 13 Sep 1992 | Nottingham City | 4-30 | Keighley Cougars | Harvey Hadden Stadium | 327 | |||||
8 | Sun 13 Sep 1992 | Wakefield Trinity | 54-14 | Doncaster | Belle Vue | 3229 |
Round 2 - Quarter Finals
Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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1 | Wed 23 Sep 1992 | Bradford Northern | 8-17 | Sheffield Eagles | Odsal | 3333 | |||||
2 | Wed 23 Sep 1992 | Featherstone Rovers | 18-8 | Huddersfield | Post Office Road | 2385 | |||||
3 | Wed 23 Sep 1992 | Hull F.C. | 26-16 | Leeds | Boulevard | 6609 | [4] | ||||
4 | Wed 23 Sep 1992 | Wakefield Trinity | 22-16 | Keighley Cougars | Belle Vue | 2508 |
Round 3 – Semi-Finals
Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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1 | Tue 06 Oct 1992 | Sheffield Eagles | 12-8 | Hull F.C. | Don Valley Stadium | 3017 | [4] | ||||
2 | Wed 07 Oct 1992 | Featherstone Rovers | 8-22 | Wakefield Trinity | Post Office Road | 5544 |
Final
The match was played at Elland Road, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 7,918.
Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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Sunday 18 October 1992 | Wakefield Trinity | 29-16 | Sheffield Eagles | Elland Road | 7,918 | ?? | 4 | [5] |
Teams and Scorers
Wakefield Trinity | № | Sheffield Eagles | ||
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teams | ||||
Gary Spencer | 1 | Garry Jack | ||
David Jones | 2 | Mark Ganson | ||
Andrew "Andy" Mason | 3 | Richard Price | ||
Peter Benson | 4 | David Mycoe | ||
Andrew "Andy" Wilson | 5 | David Plange | ||
Nigel Wright | 6 | Mark Aston | ||
Geoff Bagnall | 7 | Tim Lumb | ||
Mark Webster | 8 | Paul Broadbent | ||
Nigel Bell | 9 | Mick Cook | ||
John Glancy | 10 | Dale Laughton | ||
Gary Price | 11 | Bruce McGuire | ||
Darren Fritz | 12 | Paul Carr | ||
Richard Slater | 13 | Anthony Farrell | ||
Richard Goddard | 14 | Andy Young | ||
Billy Conway | 15 | Hugh Waddell | ||
David Topliss | Coach | Gary Hetherington | ||
29 | score | 16 | ||
11 | HT | 0 | ||
Scorers | ||||
Tries | ||||
Geoff Bagnall (1) | T | Bruce McGuire (2) | ||
Andrew "Andy" Mason (1) | T | Mark Gamson (1) | ||
Gary Price (1) | T | |||
Richard Slater (1) | T | |||
Gary Spencer (1) | T | |||
Goals | ||||
Peter Benson (3) | G | David Mycoe (2) | ||
Nigel Wright (1) | G | |||
Nigel Wright (1) | DG | |||
Referee | unknown () | |||
White Rose man of the match | Nigel Wright | ? | ||
sponsored by | ||||
Competition Sponsor | John Smith's Brewery Tadcaster |
Scoring - Try = four (4) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point
The road to success
The following chart excludes any preliminary round fixtures/results
First Round | Second Round | Semi Finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
Featherstone Rovers | 40 | ||||||||||||||||||
Dewsbury | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Featherstone Rovers | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
Huddersfield | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Huddersfield | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
Batley | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Featherstone Rovers | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wakefield Trinity | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wakefield Trinity | 54 | ||||||||||||||||||
Doncaster | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wakefield Trinity | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
Keighley Cougars | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
Nottingham City | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Keighley Cougars | 30 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wakefield Trinity | 29 | ||||||||||||||||||
Sheffield Eagles | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bradford Northern | 34 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bramley | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bradford Northern | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Sheffield Eagles | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
Sheffield Eagles | 34 | ||||||||||||||||||
Halifax | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
Sheffield Eagles | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hull F.C. | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hull F.C. | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hull Kingston Rovers | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hull F.C. | 26 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leeds | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leeds | 28 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hull Kingston Rovers | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes and comments
1 * The first Yorkshire Cup match played by Castleford Tigers since renaming their stadium The Jungle
2 * The first Yorkshire Cup match played by Huddersfield since moving into Huddersfield Town's Leeds Road stadium
3 * Dewsbury had moved to Batley's Mount Pleasant while awaiting construction of their new stadium, but played no Yorkshire Cup matches at this temporary venue
4 * Elland Road, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds United A.F.C. with a capacity of 37,914 (The record attendance was 57,892 set on 15 March 1967 for a cup match Leeds v Sunderland). The ground was originally established in 1897 by Holbeck RLFC who played there until their demise after the conclusion of the 1903-04 season
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)
Postscript
To date, this was the last season for the Yorkshire (and Lancashire Cup) competitions, which except for the break due to the two World Wars, had taken place annually since its inauguration in the 1905–06 season.
It was fitting that all the major players, with the possible exceptions of Keighley Cougars, Bramley, Doncaster and Sheffield Eagles had their name inscribed on the trophy, during the eighty-five occasions on which the tournament took place, and possible just as well the no "none-Yorkshire" club managed to win the trophy during that period!
It was only after the two county finals had been played that it was announced that both competitions were to be scrapped; news which came as a major surprise and shock to the fans. The reasons given by the ruling body, the Rugby Football League, were that it was deemed the cup was adding to fixture congestion for more successful sides and also that a local county cup did not fit the modern image of Rugby League.
Records from the Yorkshire Cup competition
Record | Holder | |||
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In Final | Record | |||
Most appearances | 21 | Leeds | ||
Most wins | 17 | Leeds | ||
Most consecutive wins | 4 | Huddersfield | 1913-14, 14-15, 1919 Spring & 1919 Autumn | |
3 | Hull F.C. | |||
2 | Bradford Northern (twice) | |||
2 | Castleford | |||
2 | Halifax | |||
2 | Hull Kingston Rovers | |||
2 | Leeds (3 times) | |||
2 | Wakefield Trinity (twice) | |||
Most consecutive appearances | 4 | Huddersfield | 1913-14, 14-15, 1919 Spring & 1919 Autumn | |
3 | Hull F.C. (twice) | |||
3 | Wakefield Trinity | |||
Highest Score | 34-8 | Leeds | v Dewsbury 1972 | |
Highest Agg score | 31-24 | Castleford | v Hull F.C. 1986 | |
Lowest Agg score | 2-0 | on 4 occasions | 1920,25,42 & 1944 | |
Widest margin | 30-2 | Huddersfield | v Hull F.C. 1914 | |
Biggest Attendance | 36000 - Headingley) | Bradford Northern v Huddersfield 1949 | ||
Smallest Attendance | 5536 - Belle Vue | Castleford v Hull Kingston Rovers 1971 | ||
Highest Receipts | £83,591 - Elland Road | Leeds v Castleford 1988 | ||
Individual in a final | ||||
Most tries | 4 | Stan Moorhouse | Huddersfield v Leeds 1919 | |
Most goals | 6 | David Stephenson | Leeds v Castleford Tigers 1988 | |
Most points | 16 (4g+2t) | Graham Steadman | Castleford Tigers v Bradford Northern 1991 | |
14 (5g+1t) | Martin Ketteridge | Castleford Tigers v Hull F.C. 1986 | ||
Players Records in all finals | ||||
Most Appearances | 10 | Douglas Clark | Huddersfield 1909, 10, 11, 13, 14, 19 Spring, 19 Autumn, 23, 25 & 1926 | |
Most Tries | 6 | Stan Moorhouse | Huddersfield 1911, 14 & 1919 Autumn | |
6 | Stanley "Stan" Smith | Leeds 1934, 35 & 1937 | ||
6 | Alan Smith | Leeds 1968, 70, 79 & 1980 | ||
Most Goals | 19 | Neil Fox | Wakefield Trinity, Hull Kingston Rovers & Bradford Northern 1958, 60, 61, 64, 75 & 1978 | |
Most Points | 53 | Neil Fox | clubs/games as above | |
In competition | ||||
Highest Score | 6-100 | Nottingham City | v Hull Kingston Rovers 1990 | |
Other record scores at the time | 94-12 | Castleford | v Huddersfield 1988 | |
8-76 | Hunslet | v Halifax 1972 | ||
73-5 | Wakefield Trinity | v Bradford Northern 1961 | ||
67-0 | Huddersfield | v Bramley 1913 | ||
68-2 | Bradford | v Bramley 1906 | ||
Highest score v junior club | 79-5 | Huddersfield | v Yorkshire Amateurs 1948 | |
Highest aggregate score | 140-5 | Huddersfield | v Yorkshire Amateurs 1948 | |
Entrants and number of cup wins
This table list all the semi-professional clubs which have entered the competition and the number (and dates) of their cup final wins, cup final runner-up spots, and losing semi-final appearances.
No. | cup winner | No, | runner-up | No | losing Semi-Final appearances | ||||
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Acton & Willesden | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Barrow | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1943 | |||||
Batley | 1 | 1912 | 4 | 1909, 1922, 1924, 1952 | 8 | 1908, 1914, 1919, 1923, 1937, 1950, 1958, 1981 | |||
Bradford | 1 | 1906 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Bradford Northern | 11 | 1940, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1948, 1949, 1953, 1965, 1978, 1987, 1989 | 4 | 1913, 1981, 1982, 1991 | 10 | 1925, 1942, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1968, 1973, 1974, 1985, 1986 | |||
Bramley | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1921, 1929, 1949, 1970, 1971 | |||||
Brighouse Rangers | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Castleford | 5 | 1977, 1981, 1986, 1990, 1991 | 8 | 1948, 1950, 1968, 1971, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988 | 9 | 1928, 1932, 1934, 1947, 1955, 1965, 1973, 1980, 1989 | |||
Coventry | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Dewsbury | 3 | 1925, 1927, 1942 | 4 | 1918, 1921, 1940, 1972 | 16 | 1908, 1913, 1920, 1923, 1928, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1963, 1967, 1976, 1979, 1990 | |||
Doncaster | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Featherstone Rovers | 2 | 1939, 1959 | 8 | 1928, 1963, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1989 | 12 | 1925, 1940, 1952, 1961, 1962, 1975, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1992 | |||
Halifax | 5 | 1908, 1944, 1954, 1955, 1963 | 4 | 1905, 1907, 1941, 1979 | 16 | 1906, 1909, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1952, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1972, 1978, 1988, 1989 | |||
Huddersfield | 12 | 1909, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1926, 1931, 1938, 1950, 1952, 1957 | 8 | 1910, 1923, 1925, 1930, 1937, 1942, 1949, 1960 | 12 | 1933, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1953, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1980 | |||
Hull F.C. | 5 | 1923, 1969, 1982, 1983, 1984 | 12 | 1912, 1914, 1920, 1927, 1938, 1946, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1959, 1967, 1986 | 14 | 1907, 1910, 1918, 1926, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1936, 1970, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1988, 1992 | |||
Hull Kingston Rovers | 7 | 1920, 1929, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1974, 1985 | 7 | 1906, 1911, 1933, 1962, 1975, 1980, 1984 | 10 | 1905, 1910, 1921, 1924, 1927, 1939, 1946, 1969, 1981, 1990 | |||
Hunslet | 3 | 1905, 1907, 1962 | 6 | 1908, 1929, 1931, 1944, 1956, 1965 | 11 | 1911, 1912, 1914, 1920, 1936, 1938, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1953 | |||
New Hunslet | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1976 | |||||
Keighley Cougars | 0 | 2 | 1943, 1951 | 7 | 1906, 1929, 1960, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1982 | ||||
Leeds | 17 | 1921, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1958, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1988 | 4 | 1919, 1947, 1961, 1964 | 16 | 1911, 1912, 1922, 1924, 1945, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1967, 1969, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1976, 1907, | |||
Mansfield Marksman | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Newcastle | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Normanton | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Oldham | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Pontefract | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
St. Helens | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Scarborough Pirates | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Sheffield Eagles | 0 | 1 | 1992 | 0 | |||||
Wakefield Trinity | 10 | 1910, 1924, 1946, 1947, 1951, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1992 | 10 | 1926, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1939, 1945, 1958, 1973, 1974, 1990 | 12 | 1907, 1909, 1913, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1930, 1938, 1948, 1979, 1983, 1991 | |||
Wigan | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1941, 1942, 1944 | |||||
Ryedale-York | 3 | 1922, 1933, 1936 | 3 | 1935, 1957, 1978 | 7 | 1905, 1926, 1927, 1931, 1956, 1958, 1961 |
References
- "Rugby League Project".
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- "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
- Yorkshire County Rugby League Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup 1992. YCRL Committee.
- Robert Gate (1991). Guinness Rugby League Fact Book. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 978-085112949 5.
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