# 1965–66 Yorkshire Cup

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

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 | Att |
| 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 |
| 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 | |

### Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att |
| 1 | Mon? 13 Sep 1965 | Hunslet | 9-8 | Hull F.C. | Parkside | |
| 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 |

### 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 | 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

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

| 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 | |

#### Teams and scorers

| Bradford Northern | No. | Hunslet |
| | Teams | |
| Jack 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 | Billy Baldwinson |
| Gil 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

| First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final | Final |
| Keighley | Keighley | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 19 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 19 | Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 12 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 6 | | | | | | | |
| Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 17 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 6 | | | | | | | |
| York | York | 9 | | | | | | | | | | |
| York | York | 9 | | | | Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 7 (7) | | | | |
| | | | | | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 7 (4) | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 4 | | | | | | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 7 (4) | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 27 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 27 | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 16 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Leeds | Leeds | 6 | | | | | | | |
| Leeds | Leeds | 40 | Leeds | Leeds | 6 | | | | | | | |
| Bramley | Bramley | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Bramley | Bramley | 4 | | | | | | | | Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 17 |
| | | | | | | | | | | Hunslet | Hunslet | 8 |
| Hunslet | Hunslet | 8 | | | | | | | | | | | Hunslet | Hunslet | 8 |
| Doncaster | Doncaster | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Doncaster | Doncaster | 2 | Hunslet | Hunslet | 9 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 8 | | | | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 4 | Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 8 | | | | | | | |
| Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 8 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 8 | | | | Hunslet | Hunslet | 17 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Castleford | Castleford | 10 | | | | |
| Castleford | Castleford | 22 | | | | | | | Castleford | Castleford | 10 | | | | |
| Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 8 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 8 | Castleford | Castleford | 25 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Halifax | Halifax | 8 | | | | | | | |
| Batley | Batley | 9 | Halifax | Halifax | 8 | | | | | | | |
| Halifax | Halifax | 37 | | | | | | | | | | |

## Notes and comments

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.