# 1975–76 Yorkshire Cup

The 1975–76 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-eighth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Leeds won the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 15-11
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 5,743 and receipts were £3,617
This was Leeds' fifth victory (and the first of two consecutive victories) in what would be eight times in the space of thirteen seasons.

## 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
### Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue |
| 1 | Fri 29 Aug 1975 | Castleford | 16-16 | Hull F.C. | Wheldon Road |
| 2 | Sat 30 Aug 1975 | Huddersfield | 7-19 | Featherstone Rovers | Fartown |
| 3 | Sat 30 Aug 1975 | Leeds | 32-5 | Halifax | Headingley |
| 4 | Sun 31 Aug 1975 | Bradford Northern | 28-12 | Bramley | Odsal |
| 5 | Sun 31 Aug 1975 | Doncaster | 11-18 | Keighley | Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield |
| 6 | Sun 31 Aug 1975 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 26-9 | Wakefield Trinity | Craven Park (1) |
| 7 | Sun 31 Aug 1975 | New Hunslet | 20-5 | Batley | Elland Road Greyhound Stadium |
| 8 | Sun 31 Aug 1975 | York | 18-12 | Dewsbury | Clarence Street |

### Round 1 - replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| R | Tue 2 Sep 1975 | Hull F.C. | 15-16 | Castleford | Boulevard | | | | |

### Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue |
| 1 | Sat 13 Sep 1975 | Bradford Northern | 2-22 | Leeds | Odsal |
| 2 | Sun 14 Sep 1975 | Featherstone Rovers | 8-5 | Castleford | Post Office Road |
| 3 | Sun 14 Sep 1975 | New Hunslet | 7-15 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Elland Road Greyhound Stadium |
| 4 | Sun 14 Sep 1975 | York | 13-16 | Keighley | Clarence Street |

### Round 3 – Semi-finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| 1 | Tue 23 Sep 1975 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 19-16 | Featherstone Rovers | Craven Park (1) | | | | |
| 2 | Wed 1 Oct 1975 | Keighley | 2-11 | Leeds | Lawkholme Lane | | | | |

### Final

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| | Saturday 15 November 1975 | Leeds | 15-11 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Headingley | 5,743 | £3,617 | 1 2 | |

#### Teams and scorers

| Leeds | № | Hull Kingston Rovers |
| | teams | |
| Marshall | 1 | Richard Wallace |
| Alan Smith | 2 | Gerald "Ged" Dunn |
| Neil Hague | 3 | Alan Burwell |
| Les Dyl | 4 | Bernard Watson |
| John Atkinson | 5 | Clive Sullivan |
| John Holmes | 6 | Glyn Turner |
| Syd Hynes | 7 | Roger Millward |
| Mick Harrison | 8 | John Millington |
| Ian Payne | 9 | Clifford "Cliff" Dickinson |
| Steve Pitchford | 10 | Steve Lyons |
| Graham Eccles | 11 | Paul Rose |
| Ray Batten | 12 | Neil Fox |
| Phil Cookson | 13 | Mick Hughes/R. Hughes |
| Christopher Sanderson | 14 | ? |
| Roy Dickinson (for Steve Pitchford) | 15 | Roy Holdstock (for Hughes) |
| Syd Hynes | Coach | Arthur Bunting |
| 15 | score | 11 |
| 7 | HT | 3 |
| | Scorers | |
| | Tries | |
| Les Dyl (1) | T | Clive Sullivan (1) |
| Phil Cookson (1) | T | Neil Fox (1) |
| | Goals | |
| John Holmes (4) | G | Neil Fox (2) |
| | Drop Goals | |
| John Holmes (1) | DG | Roger Millward (1) |
| Referee | | J. V. Moss (Manchester) |
| Man of the match | | Neil Fox - Hull KR - Second-row |
| sponsored by | | Esso |
| White Rose Trophy for Man of the match | | |
Scoring - Try = three points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point

### The road to success

| First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final | Final |
| York | York | 18 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 12 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 12 | York | York | 13 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Keighley | Keighley | 16 | | | | | | | |
| Doncaster | Doncaster | 11 | Keighley | Keighley | 16 | | | | | | | |
| Keighley | Keighley | 18 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Keighley | Keighley | 18 | | | | Keighley | Keighley | 2 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Leeds | Leeds | 11 | | | | |
| Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 28 | | | | | | | Leeds | Leeds | 11 | | | | |
| Bramley | Bramley | 12 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Bramley | Bramley | 12 | Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 2 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Leeds | Leeds | 22 | | | | | | | |
| Leeds | Leeds | 32 | Leeds | Leeds | 22 | | | | | | | |
| Halifax | Halifax | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Halifax | Halifax | 5 | | | | | | | | Leeds | Leeds | 15 |
| | | | | | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 1 |
| New Hunslet | New Hunslet | 20 | | | | | | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 1 |
| Batley | Batley | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Batley | Batley | 5 | New Hunslet | New Hunslet | 7 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 15 | | | | | | | |
| Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 26 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 15 | | | | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 9 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 9 | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 19 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 16 | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 7 | | | | | | | Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 16 | | | | |
| Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 19 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 19 | Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 8 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Castleford | Castleford | 5 | | | | | | | |
| Castleford | Castleford | 16 (16) | Castleford | Castleford | 5 | | | | | | | |
| Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 16 (15) | | | | | | | | | | |

## Notes and comments

1 * The attendance is given as 5,304 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject but the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92 and 1990-91 gives the attendance at 5,734
2 * 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.