1986–87 Yorkshire Cup

The 1986–87 Yorkshire Cup was the seventy-ninth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held. This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, and no "leavers", but another new entrant in the form of Mansfield Marksman and so the total of entries increases by one up to eighteen. This in turn resulted in the necessity to increase the number of matches in the preliminary round to reduce the number of clubs entering the first round to sixteen.

1986 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	18
Winners	Castleford
Runners-up	Hull F.C.
← 1985–86 1987–88 →

In a repeat of the 1983–84 Yorkshire Cup's final pairing, Castleford turned the tables, reversing the result and beating Hull F.C. by the score of 31-24 to win the trophy. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 11,132 and receipts were £31,888. This was the fourth time in the incredible eleven-year period in which Castleford. previously only once winners in 1977, will make eight appearances in the Yorkshire Cup final, winning on four and ending as runner-up on four occasions.

Background

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)

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	Sun 17 Aug 1986	Halifax		56-0		Mansfield Marksman	Thrum Hall	2962		1
P2	Wed 3 Sep 1986	Sheffield Eagles		22-20		Doncaster	Owlerton Stadium	654		2

Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
1	Fri 12 Sep 1986	Leeds		40-4		Keighley	Headingley	2862
2	Sun 14 Sep 1986	Batley		12-14		Wakefield Trinity	Mount Pleasant	1502
3	Sun 14 Sep 1986	Castleford		16-10		Halifax	Wheldon Road	7594
4	Sun 14 Sep 1986	Featherstone Rovers		40-13		York	Post Office Road	1732
5	Sun 14 Sep 1986	Hull F.C.		29-22		Bramley	Boulevard	3580			[2]
6	Sun 14 Sep 1986	Hull Kingston Rovers		52-30		Huddersfield Barracudas	Craven Park (1)	3736
7	Sun 14 Sep 1986	Hunslet		12-40		Bradford Northern	Elland Road	3101
8	Sun 14 Sep 1986	Sheffield Eagles		9-10		Dewsbury	Owlerton Stadium	641

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	Wed 24 Sep 1986	Bradford Northern		42-10		Dewsbury	Odsal	2682
2	Wed 24 Sep 1986	Castleford		38-16		Leeds	Wheldon Road	7198
3	Wed 24 Sep 1986	Hull F.C.		21-12		Wakefield Trinity	Boulevard	3737			[2]
4	Wed 24 Sep 1986	Hull Kingston Rovers		20-20		Featherstone Rovers	Craven Park (1)	3841

Round 2 - replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
R	Fri 26 Sep 1986	Featherstone Rovers		23-12		Hull Kingston Rovers	Post Office Road	2385

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 1 Oct 1986	Bradford Northern		12-16		Hull F.C.	Odsal	4727			[2]
2	Wed 1 Oct 1986	Featherstone Rovers		2-30		Castleford	Post Office Road	5523

Final

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
	Saturday 11 October 1986	Castleford		31-24		Hull F.C.	Headingley	11,132	£31,888	3	[2][3][4][5]

Teams and scorers

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Castleford	No.	Hull F.C.
	teams
Colin Scott	1	Gary Kemble
David Plange	2	Michael Brand
Tony Marchant	3	Garry Schofield
Chris Johns	4	Dane O'Hara
Gary Hyde	5	Paul Eastwood
John Joyner	6	Fred Ah Kuoi
Robert "Bob" Beardmore	7	Phil Windley
Kevin Ward	8	David Brown
Kevin Beardmore	9	Shaun Patrick
Barry Johnson	10	Andy Dannatt (Sent off)
Martin Ketteridge	11	Steve 'Knocker' Norton
Brett Atkins	12	Lee Crooks
Keith England	13	Jon Sharp
Gary Lord (for Gary Hyde)	14	Gary Divorty (for Steve Norton)
Alan Shillito (for Brett Atkins)	15	Neil Puckering (for Dave Brown)
Malcolm "Mal" Reilly	Coach	Len Casey
31	score	24
12	HT	18
	Scorers
	Tries
Kevin Ward (1)	T	Mike Brand (2)
Kevin Beardmore (2)	T	Dane O'Hara (2)
Martin Ketteridge (1)	T
Brett Atkins (1)	T
	Goals
Martin Ketteridge (5)	G	Lee Crooks (4)
	Drop Goals
Robert "Bob" Beardmore (1)	DG
Referee		John McDonald (Wigan)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match		Kevin Beardmore - Castleford - Hooker
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
	Hull Kingston Rovers		52
	Huddersfield Barracudas		30
						Hull Kingston Rovers		20 (12)
						Featherstone Rovers		20 (23)
	Featherstone Rovers		40
	York		13
											Featherstone Rovers		2
											Castleford		30
	Castleford		16
	Halifax		10
						Castleford		38
						Leeds		16
	Leeds		40
	Keighley		4
																Castleford		31
																Hull F.C.		24
	Hunslet		12
	Bradford Northern		40
						Bradford Northern		42
						Dewsbury		10
	Sheffield Eagles		9
	Dewsbury		10
											Bradford Northern		12
											Hull F.C.		16
	Hull F.C.		29
	Bramley		22
						Hull F.C.		21
						Wakefield Trinity		12
	Batley		12
	Wakefield Trinity		14

Notes

1 * The first Yorkshire Cup match to be played by newly elected to the league Mansfield Marksman

2 * This is the first Yorkshire Cup match played at Sheffield Eagles' Owlerton Stadium

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.

See also

• 1986–87 Rugby Football League season
• Rugby league county cups

References

1. "Rugby League Project".
2. "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
3. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
4. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
5. Yorkshire County Rugby League Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup 1986. YCRL Committee.

External links

• Saints Heritage Society
• 1896–97 Northern Rugby Football Union season at wigan.rlfans.com Archived 2 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
• Hull&Proud Fixtures & Results 1896/1897
• Widnes Vikings - One team, one passion Season In Review - 1896-97
• The Northern Union at warringtonwolves.org