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1978–79 Yorkshire Cup
The 1978–79 Yorkshire Cup was the seventy-first occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Bradford Northern won the trophy by beating York by the score of 18-8 The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 10,429 and receipts were £9,188 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 Round 2 - Quarter Finals Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs Round 3 – Semi-Finals Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs Final Teams and Scorers Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point The road to success Notes and comments 1 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record atten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradford Bulls
The Bradford Bulls are a professional rugby league club in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, playing in the Championship. They have won five Challenge Cups, six league championships and three World Club Challenges. The team jersey is predominantly white with red, amber and black chevrons. In 1907, Bradford F.C., founder member of the Rugby Football League, switched codes to association football and Bradford Northern, often abbreviated to Northern, was formed by members who wished to continue rugby. Bradford Northern were renamed Bradford Bulls in 1996, at the start of Super League. Bradford's main rivalries are with Leeds, Halifax and Huddersfield. The club entered administration in 2012, and again in 2014 and 2016. Several bids were made to take over the club but none were accepted by the administrators, and so on 3 January 2017 the club went into liquidation. Immediately the RFL announced the criteria and invited bids to form a "new club", which ultimately acted as an i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keighley Cougars
The Keighley Cougars are a professional rugby league club from Keighley in West Yorkshire, England who compete in League 1, the third tier of English rugby league. Keighley's home ground, Cougar Park has a capacity of 7,800. History Early years The club was formed at a meeting held on 17 October 1876 under the presidency of the Reverend Marriner. A committee was elected and the club was allowed the use of Holmes' field in Lawkholme Lane. The first kick-off took place on Saturday afternoon, 21 October and the committee met again on 24 October and decided to adopt Association and Rugby football laws. On 18 November 1876, the first game took place at Lawkholme Lane. The visitors were Crosshills and although the game ended in a draw, there are records, which say, "the draw was in the visitors' favour". The first important match appears to have been played on 13 January 1877 against Bingley. Under the scoring system of the day, the visitors won by two tries and two touchdowns t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Morgan (rugby League)
Sir Terence Keith Morgan (born 28 December 1948) is a British engineer. Early life Terry Morgan was born in 1948. His early education was at Croesycelliog Secondary Modern School. He studied for an HND at Newport and Monmouthshire College of Technology. Morgan graduated from Birmingham University with an MSc degree in Engineering Production and Management. Career Morgan became Chairman of Crossrail in 2009. Between 2002 and 2009 he was Chief Executive Officer of Tube Lines, the public–private partnership company that was responsible for the maintenance, renewal and upgrade of the infrastructure of three London Underground lines. Morgan is Non-Executive Chairman of the Manufacturing Technology Centre and of the National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering. He is a past president of the Chartered Management Institute. Morgan was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1994. He was appointed a Institution of Electrical Engineers, Fellow of the Institute o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
