1970–71 Yorkshire Cup
The 1970–71 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Leeds won the trophy by beating Featherstone Rovers by the score of 23–7
The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 6,753 and receipts were £1,879
This was Featherstone Rovers's second Yorkshire Cup final defeat in successive competitions
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
Involved 8 matches and 16 Clubs| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
| 1 | Fri 28 Aug 1970 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 9–27 | Hull F.C. | Craven Park | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 29 Aug 1970 | Bramley | 27–5 | Bradford Northern | McLaren Field | ||||||
| 3 | Sat 29 Aug 1970 | Castleford | 29–4 | Halifax | Wheldon Road | ||||||
| 4 | Sat 29 Aug 1970 | Featherstone Rovers | 40–9 | York | Post Office Road | ||||||
| 5 | Sat 29 Aug 1970 | Wakefield Trinity | 10–20 | Leeds | Belle Vue | ||||||
| 6 | Sun 30 Aug 1970 | Dewsbury | 12–10 | Keighley | Crown Flatt | ||||||
| 7 | Sun 30 Aug 1970 | Huddersfield | 17–0 | Batley | Fartown | ||||||
| 8 | Sun 30 Aug 1970 | Hunslet | w/o | Doncaster | Parkside | 1 |
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 | Mon 7 Sep 1970 | Castleford | 7–14 | Leeds | Wheldon Road | ||||||
| 2 | Fri 11 Sep 1970 | Bramley | 12–7 | Dewsbury | McLaren Field | ||||||
| 3 | Fri 11 Sep 1970 | Hull F.C. | 42–0 | Doncaster | Boulevard | ||||||
| 4 | Wed 16 Sep 1970 | Huddersfield | 8–10 | Featherstone Rovers | Fartown |
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 29 Sep 1970 | Hull F.C. | 11–12 | Leeds | Boulevard | ||||||
| 2 | Fri 2 Oct 1970 | Featherstone Rovers | 23–2 | Bramley | Post Office Road |
Final
Teams and Scorers
| Leeds | № | Featherstone Rovers |
| teams | ||
| John Holmes | 1 | Cyril Kellett |
| Alan Smith | 2 | Michael "Mick" Smith |
| Syd Hynes | 3 | Keith Cotton |
| Ronnie Cowan | 4 | John Newlove |
| John Atkinson | 5 | David "Dave" Hartley |
| Anthony Wainwright | 6 | Chris Harding |
| Mick Shoebottom | 7 | Terry Hudson |
| John Burke | 8 | Sam Windmill |
| Peter Dunn | 9 | Dennis Morgan |
| Phil Cookson | 10 | Steve Lyons |
| Bill Ramsey | 11 | Alan Rhodes |
| Bob Haigh | 12 | James "Jimmy" Thompson |
| Ray Batten | 13 | Vince Farrar |
| John Langley | 14 | Paul Coventry |
| ? | 15 | ? |
| Derek Turner | Coaches | Laurie Gant |
| - | ||
| 23 | score | 7 |
| 8 | HT | 2 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| Alan Smith | T | Dave Hartley |
| John Atkinson | T | |
| Peter Dunn | T | |
| Bill Ramsey | T | |
| T | - | |
| T | - | |
| T | - | |
| Goals | ||
| Syd Hynes | G | Cyril Kellett |
| G | - | |
| G | - | |
| Drop Goals | ||
| DG | - | |
| DG | - | |
| DG | - | |
| Referee | D S Brown | |
| White Rose Trophy for Man of the match | Syd Hynes - Leeds - | |
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Scoring - Try = three points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = two points
The road to success
General information for those unfamiliar
The Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between 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.The Rugby League season always 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 December