1967–68 Yorkshire Cup
# 1967–68 Yorkshire Cup

The 1967–68 Yorkshire Cup was the sixtieth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Hull Kingston Rovers 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 Kingston Rovers 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

## 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

### Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Fri 1 Sep 1967 | Castleford | 7-13 | Hull F.C. | Wheldon Road | | |
| 2 | Fri 1 Sep 1967 | Keighley | 5-23 | Wakefield Trinity | Lawkholme Lane | | |
| 3 | Fri 1 Sep 1967 | Leeds | 25-10 | Batley | Headingley | | |
| 4 | Sat 2 Sep 1967 | Bradford Northern | 15-16 | Dewsbury | Odsal | | |
| 5 | Sat 2 Sep 1967 | Bramley | 4-7 | Huddersfield | McLaren Field | 5,070 | 1 |
| 6 | Sat 2 Sep 1967 | Doncaster | 10-28 | Halifax | Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield | | |
| 7 | Sat 2 Sep 1967 | Hunslet | 14-8 | Featherstone Rovers | Parkside | | |
| 8 | Sat 2 Sep 1967 | York | 4-22 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Clarence Street | | |

### Round 2 - quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Tue 12 Sep 1967 | Halifax | 2-11 | Hull F.C. | Thrum Hall | |
| 2 | Tue 12 Sep 1967 | Leeds | 18-14 | Hunslet | Headingley | |
| 3 | Wed 13 Sep 1967 | Huddersfield | 11-11 | Dewsbury | Fartown | 7,380 |
| 4 | Wed 13 Sep 1967 | Wakefield Trinity | 13-13 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Belle Vue | |

### Round 2 - replays

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| R1 | Thu 14 Sep 1967 | Dewsbury | 5-4 | Huddersfield | Crown Flatt | 4,400 | | | |
| R2 | Fri 15 Sep 1967 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 14-5 | Wakefield Trinity | Craven Park (1) | | | | |

### Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Tue 26 Sep 1967 | Dewsbury | 0-21 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Crown Flatt | | | | |
| 2 | Wed 27 Sep 1967 | Hull F.C. | 31-6 | Leeds | Boulevard | | | | |

### Final

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Saturday 14 October 1967 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 8-7 | Hull F.C. | Headingley | 16,729 | £5,515 | 2 | |

**Teams and scorers**

| Hull Kingston Rovers | № | Hull F.C. |
| - | - | - |
| | teams | |
| Cyril Kellett | 1 | Arthur Keegan |
| Christopher Young | 2 | Norman Oliver |
| John Moore | 3 | David Doyle-Davidson |
| Dave Elliott | 4 | John Maloney |
| Alan Burwell | 5 | Geoff Stocks |
| Roger Millward | 6 | Terry Devonshire |
| Colin Cooper | 7 | Chris Davidson |
| William Holliday | 8 | Mick Harrison |
| Peter Flanagan | 9 | Alan McGlone |
| Brian Mennell | 10 | Eric Broom |
| Phil Lowe | 11 | John Edson |
| John Hickson | 12 | Jim Macklin |
| Terry Major | 13 | Cyril Sykes |
| Frank Foster (for John Hickson) | 14 | |
| Colin Hutton | Coach | Johnny Whiteley |
| 9 | score | 6 |
| 7 | HT | 0 |
| | Scorers | |
| | Tries | |
| Alan Burwell (1) | T | |
| Roger Millward (1) | T | Chris Davidson (1) |
| | Goals | |
| Cyril Kellett (1) | G | John Maloney (1) |
| | G | Chris Davidson (1) |
| | Drop Goals | |
| | DG | |
| Referee | | Dennis Davies (Manchester) |
| White Rose Trophy for Man of the match | | Chris Davidson - Hull F.C. - scrum-half |
| sponsored by | | |

Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points

### The road to success

| First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bramley | Bramley | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 7 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 7 | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 11 (4) | | | | | | | |
| | | | Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 11 (5) | | | | | | | |
| Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 15 | Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 11 (5) | | | | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 16 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 16 | | | | Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 0 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 21 | | | | |
| Keighley | Keighley | 5 | | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 21 | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 23 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 23 | Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 13 (5) | | | | | | | |
| | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 13 (14) | | | | | | | |
| York | York | 4 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 13 (14) | | | | | | | |
| Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 22 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 22 | | | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 8 |
| | | | | | | | | | | Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 7 |
| Doncaster | Doncaster | 10 | | | | | | | | | | | Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 7 |
| Halifax | Halifax | 28 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Halifax | Halifax | 28 | Halifax | Halifax | 2 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 11 | | | | | | | |
| Castleford | Castleford | 7 | Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 11 | | | | | | | |
| Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 13 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 13 | | | | Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 31 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Leeds | Leeds | 6 | | | | |
| Leeds | Leeds | 25 | | | | | | | Leeds | Leeds | 6 | | | | |
| Batley | Batley | 10 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Batley | Batley | 10 | Leeds | Leeds | 18 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Hunslet | Hunslet | 14 | | | | | | | |
| Hunslet | Hunslet | 14 | Hunslet | Hunslet | 14 | | | | | | | |
| Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 8 | | | | | | | | | | |

## Notes and comments

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.

### 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)

