1991–92 Yorkshire Cup

1991–92 Yorkshire Cup
1991–92 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	19
Winners	Castleford
Runners-up	Bradford Northern
	← 1990–91 1992–93 →

The 1991–92 Yorkshire Cup was the 84th occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Cup holders, Castleford, retained the trophy by beating Bradford Northern by the score of 28-6

The match was played at Elland Road, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 8,916 and receipts were £?

This was the eighth time in the incredible eleven-year period in which Castleford. previously only once winners in 1977–78, had made eight appearances in the Yorkshire Cup final, winning on four and ending as runner-up on four occasions. It was also the second year in succession that Castleford had won the trophy. within that eleven-year period.

Background

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no "leavers" but one new entrant in the form of Scarborough Pirates and so the total of entries increased by one from last season, to a total of nineteen.

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

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Preliminary round

Involved 3 matches and 6 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Notes
P1	Sun 25 Aug 1991	Doncaster	10-14	Scarborough Pirates	Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield	1080	1
P2	Sun 25 Aug 1991	Nottingham City	7-36	Huddersfield	Harvey Hadden Stadium	176
P3	Sun 25 Aug 1991	Ryedale-York	36-8	Hunslet	Ryedale Stadium	707

Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Notes	Ref
1	Sun 15 Sep 1991	Batley	12-36	Castleford	Mount Pleasant	3089
2	Sun 15 Sep 1991	Featherstone Rovers	30-7	Scarborough Pirates	Post Office Road	2761	2
3	Sun 15 Sep 1991	Hull F.C.	16-11	Leeds	Boulevard	8255		^[2]
4	Sun 15 Sep 1991	Hull Kingston Rovers	18-5	Dewsbury	Craven Park (2)	3060	3
5	Sun 15 Sep 1991	Halifax	18-24	Wakefield Trinity	Thrum Hall	6132
6	Sun 15 Sep 1991	Huddersfield	28-10	Ryedale-York	Fartown	1387
7	Sun 15 Sep 1991	Keighley Cougars	8-20	Bramley	Cougar Park	1204	4
8	Mon 16 Sep 1991	Sheffield Eagles	13-15	Bradford Northern	Don Valley Stadium	2012	5

Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Ref
1	Wed 25 Sep 1991	Bramley	15-38	Bradford Northern	McLaren Field	2009
2	Wed 25 Sep 1991	Castleford	24-12	Hull Kingston Rovers	Wheldon Road	4953
3	Wed 25 Sep 1991	Huddersfield	9-52	Wakefield Trinity	Fartown	4799
4	Wed 25 Sep 1991	Hull F.C.	16-16	Featherstone Rovers	Boulevard	6437	^[2]
Replay	Tue 01 Oct 1991	Featherstone Rovers	21-18	Hull F.C.	Post Office Road	3751	^[2]

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	Wed 09 Oct 1991	Bradford Northern	14-10	Wakefield Trinity	Odsal	4173
2	Wed 09 Oct 1991	Castleford	18-10	Featherstone Rovers	Wheldon Road	8890

Final

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
	Sunday 20 October 1991	Castleford	28-6	Bradford Northern	Elland Road	8,916	?	6	^[3]^[4]

Teams and scorers

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Castleford	№	Bradford Northern

	teams
Graham Steadman	1	Ian Wilkinson
St. John Ellis	2	Daio Powell
Graeme Bradley	3	Darrall Shelford
Richie Blackmore	4	Steve McGowan
David Nelson	5	Roger Simpson
Tony Smith	6	Tony Anderson
Mike Ford	7	Neil Summers
Lee Crooks (c)	8	David Hobbs
Graham Southernwood	9	Brian Noble (c)
Keith England	10	Jon Hamer
Neil Battye	11	Paul Medley
Shaun Irwin	12	Karl Fairbank
Tawera Nikau	13	Steve Barnett
Grant Anderson	14	Alex Green
Dean Sampson	15	David Croft
Darryl van der Velde	Coach	David Hobbs

28	score	6
12	HT	6

	Scorers
	Tries
Graham Steadman (2)	T	Daio Powell (1)
Neil Battye (1)	T
Mike Ford (1)	T
Tony Smith (1)	T
	Goals
Graham Steadman (4)	G	David Hobbs (1)
Referee		John Holdsworth (Kippax)
Man of the match		Graham Steadman
sponsored by
Competition Sponsor		John Smith's Brewery Tadcaster

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

The road to success

The following chart excludes any preliminary round fixtures/results

First round		Second round		Semi-finals		Final

Batley	12

Castleford	36
		Castleford	34

		Hull Kingston Rovers	12
Hull Kingston Rovers	18

Dewsbury	5
				Castleford	18

				Featherstone Rovers	10
Hull F.C.	16

Leeds	11
		Hull F.C.	16 (18)

		Featherstone Rovers	16 (21)
Featherstone Rovers	30

Scarborough Pirates	7
						Castleford	28

						Bradford Northern	6
Keighley Cougars	8

Bramley	20
		Bramley	15

		Bradford Northern	38
Sheffield Eagles	13

Bradford Northern	15
				Bradford Northern	14

				Wakefield Trinity	10
Huddersfield	28

Ryedale-York	10
		Huddersfield	9

		Wakefield Trinity	52
Halifax	18

Wakefield Trinity	24

Notes and comments

1 * The first match to be played in the Yorkshire Cup by newly elected to the league Scarborough Pirates (this was also the club's very first match to be played)

2 * The second (and last) Yorkshire Cup match to be played by Scarborough Pirates, who folded after just one season after reputedly losing over £100,000

3 * The first match to be played by Hull Kingston Rovers since moving into their new purpose built stadium

4 * The first Yorkshire Cup match to be played by Keighley Cougars after the re-branding of the club and the stadium with the Cougars suffix

5 * The first Yorkshire Cup match to be played by

Sheffield Eagles since moving into their new home at Don Valley Stadium

6 *

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)

References

^ ^a ^b "Rugby League Project".
^ ^a ^b ^c "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
^ Yorkshire County Rugby League Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup 1991. YCRL Committee.
^ Macklin, Keith (21 October 1991). "Steadman inspires sharp Castleford to Yorkshire Cup". The Times. No. 64156. p. 34.

External links

[RLP.orgMisc-1] "Rugby League Project".

[HullMisc-2] "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".

[ProgMisc-3] Yorkshire County Rugby League Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup 1991. YCRL Committee.

[4] Macklin, Keith (21 October 1991). "Steadman inspires sharp Castleford to Yorkshire Cup". The Times. No. 64156. p. 34.

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