1973 Yorkshire Cup
| 1973–74 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 16 |
| Winners | Leeds |
| Runners-up | Wakefield Trinity |
The 1973 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-sixth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup Rugby competition had been held.
Leeds won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 7-2
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 7,621 and receipts were £3,728
This was Leeds' fourth victory (and the second of two consecutive victories) in what would be eight times in the space of thirteen seasons.
It was also the first of two consecutive Yorkshire Cup Final appearances by Wakefield Trinity, both of which would result in defeat
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entants 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
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point
1 * The first Yorkshire Cup match played by the newly re-formed New Hunslet club
2 * The attendance is given as 7,621 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject and the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92 and 1990-91 but the John Player Yearbook 1974–75 gives the attendance at 7,565
3 * 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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