1967 Yorkshire Cup
| Structure | Regional knockout championship | |||
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| Number of teams | 16 | |||
| Winners | Hull KR | |||
| Runners-up | Hull F.C. | |||
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The 1967 Yorkshire Cup was the sixtieth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Hull KR won the trophy by beating Hull F.C. by the score of 9-6
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 16,729 and receipts were £5,515
This final was a repeat of the 1920-21 final, in the only other final, to date, to be contested by the two clubs, and in which Hull KR also defeated local neighbours and fierce rivals Hull F.C. in a closely contested match. In 1920 the score was 2-0; this time it was almost as close.
This is also the second consecutive year in which Hull Kingston Rovers had won the trophy
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.
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs
Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
1 * The first Yorkshire Cup match played by Bramley at the new stadium, McLaren Field
2 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.
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)
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