The 1972–73 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-fifth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

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winning the trophy by beating Dewsbury by the score of 36-9 in what would be Dewsbury's last appearance in a Yorkshire Cup final The match was played at

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in the

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, now in

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. The attendance was 7,806 and receipts were £2,659 This was

third victory (and the first of two consecutive victories) in what would be eight times in the space of thirteen seasons

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

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is the home ground of

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from 1890 to 2010 and the current capacity is in the region of 26,000, The ground is famous for hosting the largest attendance at an English sports ground when 102,569 (it was reported that over 120,000 actually attended as several areas of boundary fencing collapse under the sheer weight of numbers) attended the replay of the Challenge Cup final on 5 May 1954 to see Halifax v Warrington.

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

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, Mansfield,

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, 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)

References

External links

Saints Heritage Society1896–97 Northern Rugby Football Union season at wigan.rlfans.comHull&Proud Fixtures & Results 1896/1897Widnes Vikings - One team, one passion Season In Review - 1896-97The Northern Union at warringtonwolves.org
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