1988–89 Yorkshire Cup

1988–89 Yorkshire Cup
1988–89 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	18
Winners	Leeds
Runners-up	Castleford
	← 1987–88 1989–90 →

The 1988–89 Yorkshire Cup was the eighty-first occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup rugby league competition was held.

Leeds won the trophy by beating the previous season's runner-up, Castleford, with a score of 33-12.
The match was played at Elland Road, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 22,968 and receipts were £83,591.
This was the sixth time in an eleven-year period in which Castleford, previously only winners once (in 1977), made eight appearances in the Yorkshire Cup final, winning four and finishing runners-up on the other four occasions. It was also the second season in succession that Castleford appeared, and lost, in the final within that eleven-year period.

Background

In the 1988–89 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 eighteen.
As a result, a preliminary round was required 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	Wed 31 Aug 1988	Bramley		16-38		Leeds	McLaren Field	4,258
P2	Wed 31 Aug 1988	Sheffield Eagles		8-28		Wakefield Trinity	Owlerton Stadium	1,356

Round 1

Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Notes	Ref
1	Sun 18 Sep 1988	Castleford	94-12	Huddersfield	Wheldon Road	3,144	1 2
2	Sun 18 Sep 1988	Featherstone Rovers	38-8	Doncaster	Post Office Road	2,682
3	Sun 18 Sep 1988	Halifax	36-14	Batley	Thrum Hall	5,370
4	Sun 18 Sep 1988	Hull F.C.	53-0	Hunslet	Boulevard	3,153		^[2]
5	Sun 18 Sep 1988	Keighley	22-28	Hull Kingston Rovers	Lawkholme Lane	1,596
6	Sun 18 Sep 1988	Leeds	24-21	Bradford Northern	Headingley	10,992
7	Sun 18 Sep 1988	Wakefield Trinity	46-20	Dewsbury	Belle Vue	3,733
8	Sun 18 Sep 1988	York	25-4	Mansfield Marksman	Clarence Street	1,370

Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Ref
1	Tue 27 Sep 1988	Hull F.C.	18-0	Featherstone Rovers	Boulevard	4,010	^[2]
2	Wed 28 Sep 1988	Castleford	40-14	York	Wheldon Road	3,155
3	Wed 28 Sep 1988	Halifax	24-2	Hull Kingston Rovers	Thrum Hall	6,296
4	Wed 28 Sep 1988	Leeds	15-10	Wakefield Trinity	Headingley	11,150

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 5 Oct 1988	Halifax		8-12		Castleford	Thrum Hall	8,432
2	Wed 5 Oct 1988	Leeds		12-8		Hull F.C.	Headingley	10,384			^[2]

Final

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
	Sunday 16 October 1988	Leeds		33-12		Castleford	Elland Road	22,968	£83.591	3 4	^[3]^[4]^[5]

Teams and scorers

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Leeds	№	Castleford
	teams
Gary Spencer	1	Gary Belcher
Andrew Ettingshausen	2	David Plange
Garry Schofield	3	Tony Marchant
David Stephenson	4	Giles Boothroyd
Carl Gibson	5	Chris Chapman
Cliff Lyons	6	Grant Anderson
Ray Ashton	7	Robert "Bob" Beardmore
Lee Crooks	8	Kevin Ward
Colin Maskill	9	Kevin Beardmore
Hugh Waddell	10	Keith England
Roy Powell	11	Martin Ketteridge
Mark Brooke-Cowden	12	Ron Gibbs
David Heron	13	John Joyner
Paul Medley (for Mark Brooke-Cowden)	14	David Roockley (for Chris Chapman)
Sam Backo (for Hugh Waddell)	15	Dean Sampson (for David Roockley)
Malcolm "Mal" Reilly	Coach	Darryl van der Velde

33	score	12
15	HT	12

	Scorers
	Tries
Garry Schofield (2)	T	Giles Boothroyd (1)
Carl Gibson (2)	T	John Joyner (1)
Paul Medley (1)	T
	Goals
David Stephenson (6)	G	Martin Ketteridge (2)
	Drop Goals
Garry Schofield (1)	DG
Referee		Robin Whitfield (Widnes)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match		Cliff Lyons - Leeds - stand-off
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

Leeds	24

Bradford Northern	21
		Leeds	15

		Wakefield Trinity	10
Wakefield Trinity	46

Dewsbury	20
				Leeds	12

				Hull F.C.	8
Hull F.C.	53

Hunslet	0
		Hull F.C.	18

		Featherstone Rovers	0
Featherstone Rovers	38

Doncaster	8
						Leeds	33

						Castleford	12
Halifax	36

Batley	14
		Halifax	24

		Hull Kingston Rovers	2
Keighley	22

Hull Kingston Rovers	28
				Halifax	8

				Castleford	12
Castleford	94

Huddersfield	12
		Castleford	40

		York	14
York	25

Mansfield Marksman	4

Notes and comments

1 * The first Yorkshire Cup match played by the newly renamed Huddersfield who dropped the "Barracudas"'s suffix
2 * The record score (and highest winning margin) at the time for a Yorkshire Cup match, beating the previous record win of 79-5 (1948)
3 * The receipts are given as £76,658 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92^[3] and 1990-91^[4] but the details given in a section of the Huddersfield v Ryedale-York match programme^[6]^[7] for the preliminary round on Sunday 23 August 1992 (and all verified by The Rugby League Record Keepers Club), show the receipts as £83,591

General information about the Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition

The Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from Yorkshire. However teams were sometimes included 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 to May. This competition always took place early in the season, in Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception 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 ^d "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
^ ^a ^b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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 1988. YCRL Committee.
^ Yorkshire Cup Prelim rd 1992 Huddersfield v Ryedale York. Match Programme. Huddersfield RLFC.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Yorkshire Cup Prelim rd 1992 v Ryedale-York" (PDF).

External links

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

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

[Roth1991-92Misc-3] Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.

[Roth1990-91Misc-4] Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.

[ProgMisc-5] Yorkshire County Rugby League Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup 1988. YCRL Committee.

[YCFProgMisc-6] Yorkshire Cup Prelim rd 1992 Huddersfield v Ryedale York. Match Programme. Huddersfield RLFC.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[Huddprogvyork1992Misc-7] "Yorkshire Cup Prelim rd 1992 v Ryedale-York" (PDF).

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