1992–93 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
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	18
Winners	Wakefield Trinity
Runners-up	Sheffield Eagles
← 1991–92

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

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Preliminary round

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
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
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
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
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
	Sunday 18 October 1992	Wakefield Trinity		29-16		Sheffield Eagles	Elland Road	7,918	??	4	^[5]

Teams and scorers

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Wakefield Trinity	№	Sheffield Eagles
	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 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
	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
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

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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
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

See also

• 1992–93 Rugby Football League season
• Rugby league county cups

References

1. "Rugby League Project".
2. "Yorkshire Cup Prelim rd 1992 v Ryedale-York" (PDF).
3. Yorkshire Cup Prelim rd 1992 Huddersfield v Ryedale York. Match Programme. Huddersfield RLFC.
4. "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
5. Yorkshire County Rugby League Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup 1992. YCRL Committee.
6. Robert Gate (1991). Guinness Rugby League Fact Book. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 978-085112949 5.
7. Spotter Series. Spotter book of Rugby League Facts. Dorset Publ.

External links

• Saints Heritage Society
• 1896–97 Northern Rugby Football Union season at wigan.rlfans.com 2 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
• Widnes Vikings - One team, one passion Season In Review - 1896–97