1980–81 Yorkshire Cup

1980–81 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	16
Winners	Leeds
Runners-up	Hull Kingston Rovers
← 1979–80 1981–82 →

The 1980–81 Yorkshire Cup was the seventy-third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Leeds winning the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 8-7

The match was played at Fartown Ground, Huddersfield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 9,751 and receipts were £15,578

This was Leeds' eighth victory (and the second of two consecutive victories - for the third time within the sequence) in what has been eight times in the space of thirteen seasons.

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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

^[1]

Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Ref

1	Sat 16 Aug 1980	Leeds	47-8	York	Headingley	2921
2	Sun 17 Aug 1980	Bradford Northern	10-6	Batley	Odsal	3173
3	Sun 17 Aug 1980	Dewsbury	5-15	Bramley	Crown Flatt	1100
4	Sun 17 Aug 1980	Featherstone Rovers	16-12	Hull F.C.	Post Office Road	7025	^[2]
5	Sun 17 Aug 1980	Halifax	8-18	Castleford	Thrum Hall	2926
6	Sun 17 Aug 1980	Hull Kingston Rovers	21-17	Wakefield Trinity	Craven Park (1)	7628
7	Sun 17 Aug 1980	Hunslet	22-4	Doncaster	Mount Pleasant	550
8	Sun 17 Aug 1980	Keighley	16-25	Huddersfield	Lawkholme Lane	1550

Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att

1	Sun 24 Aug 1980	Castleford	26-25	Bramley	Wheldon Road	2215
2	Sun 24 Aug 1980	Huddersfield	20-13	Bradford Northern	Fartown	4080
3	Sun 24 Aug 1980	Hull Kingston Rovers	33-12	Featherstone Rovers	Craven Park (1)	9088
4	Sun 24 Aug 1980	Leeds	31-12	Hunslet	Headingley	3940

Round 3 – Semi-finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att

1	Wed 10 Sep 1980	Castleford	7-11	Hull Kingston Rovers	Wheldon Road	7328
2	Thu 11 Sep 1980	Leeds	17-13	Huddersfield	Headingley	4418

Final

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref

	Saturday 8 November 1980	Leeds		8-7		Hull Kingston Rovers	Fartown	9,751	£15,578	1	^[3]^[4]^[5]

Teams and scorers

^[1]^[4]

Leeds	№	Hull Kingston Rovers

	teams
Neil Hague (see note 2)	1	Ian Robinson
Alan Smith	2	Gary McHugh
David Smith	3	Mike Smith
John Atkinson (see note 3)	4	Phil Hogan
Willie Oulton (see note 4)	5	Wally Youngman
John Holmes	6	Dave Hall
Kevin Dick	7	Paul Harkin
Mick Harrison	8	Roy Holdstock
David Ward	9	xRaymond Price [1]
Steve Pitchford	10	Steve Crooks
Graham Eccles	11	Phil Lowe
Phil Cookson	12	Len Casey (c)
David Heron	13	Mick Crane
?	14	?
Carrol (for Phil Cookson)	15	Paul Rose (for Steve Crooks)
Robin Dewhurst	Coach	Roger Millward

8	score	7
2	HT	7

	Scorers
	Tries
Alan Smith (1)	T	Gary McHugh (1)
	Goals
Kevin Dick (2)	G	Phil Hogan (2)
	Drop Goals
Kevin Dick (1)	DG
Referee		Ronald "Ronnie" Campbell (Widnes)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match		Kevin Dick - Leeds - scrum-half
sponsored by
Competition Sponsor		Webster's Brewery (Samuel Webster & Sons Ltd)

Scoring - Try = three points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point

The road to success

First round		Second round		Semi-finals		Final

Leeds	47

York	8
		Leeds	31

		Hunslet	12
Hunslet	22

Doncaster	4
				Leeds	17

				Huddersfield	13
Keighley	16

Huddersfield	25
		Huddersfield	20

		Bradford Northern	13
Bradford Northern	10

Batley	6
						Leeds	8

						Hull Kingston Rovers	7
Halifax	8

Castleford	18
		Castleford	26

		Bramley	25
Dewsbury	5

Bramley	15
				Castleford	7

				Hull Kingston Rovers	11
Hull Kingston Rovers	21

Wakefield Trinity	17
		Hull Kingston Rovers	33

		Featherstone Rovers	12
Featherstone Rovers	16

Hull F.C.	12

Notes and comments

1 * Fartown was the home ground of Huddersfield from 1878 to the end of the 1991-92 season to Huddersfield Town FC's Leeds Road stadium, and then to the McAlpine Stadium in 1994. Fartown remained as a sports/Rugby League ground but is now rather dilapidated, and is only used for staging amateur rugby league games.

2 * Neil Hague -The player number given is as shown in the Rothmans Yearbook 1990-91^[4] and also 1991-92.^[3] The RUGBYLEAGUEproject^[1] shows Neil Hague as a centre (numbered as 4)

3 * John Atkinson - The player number given is as shown in the Rothmans Yearbook 1990-91^[4] and also 1991-92.^[3] The RUGBYLEAGUEproject^[1] shows John Atkinson as winger (numbered as 5)

4 * Willie Oulton The player number given is as shown in the Rothmans Yearbook 1990-91^[4] and also 1991-92.^[3] The RUGBYLEAGUEproject^[1] shows Willie Oulton as the full back (numbered as 1)

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)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Rugby League Project".
^ "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
^ Yorkshire County Rugby League Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup 1980. YCRL Committee.