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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.

1978–79 Yorkshire Cup
Regional knockout championship
16
Bradford Northern
York

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

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.

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue
1	Sun 20 Aug 1978	Batley	8–24	Halifax	Mount Pleasant
2	Sun 20 Aug 1978	Bradford Northern	24–23	Leeds	Odsal
3	Sun 20 Aug 1978	Bramley	4–13	Hull F.C.	McLaren Field
4	Sun 20 Aug 1978	Castleford	18–11	Dewsbury	Wheldon Road
5	Sun 20 Aug 1978	Doncaster	5–20	Keighley	Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield
6	Sun 20 Aug 1978	Featherstone Rovers	23–8	Huddersfield	Post Office Road
7	Sun 20 Aug 1978	Wakefield Trinity	11–16	Hull Kingston Rovers	Belle Vue
8	Sun 20 Aug 1978	York	25–19	New Hunslet	Clarence Street

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue
1	Sun 27 Aug 1978	Bradford Northern	28–17	Hull Kingston Rovers	Odsal
2	Sun 27 Aug 1978	Featherstone Rovers	8–20	Hull F.C.	Post Office Road
3	Sun 27 Aug 1978	Halifax	20–8	Castleford	Thrum Hall
4	Sun 27 Aug 1978	York	13–6	Keighley	Clarence Street

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
1	Wed 13 Sep 1978	Bradford Northern	12–7	Hull F.C.	Odsal
2	Tue 19 Sep 1978	Halifax	2–4	York	Thrum Hall

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
	Saturday 28 October 1978	Bradford Northern	18–8	York	Headingley	10,429	£9,188

Bradford Northern	№	York

	teams
Keith Mumby	1	Gary Smith
David Barends	2	Terry Morgan
Les Gant	3	Terry Day
Derrick Parker	4	Derek Foster
David Redfearn	5	Gary Nicholson
Ian Slater	6	Barry Banks
Alan Redfearn	7	Paul Harkin
Jimmy Thompson	8	David Dunkerley
Tony Fisher	9	Ron Wileman
Colin Forsyth	10	Billy Harris
Neil Fox	11	Alan Rhodes
Dennis Trotter	12	Barry Hollis
Bob Haigh	13	Stephen/Steven "Steve" Cooper
Johnny Wolford (for Ian Slater)	14	John Crossley, Jr. (for Terry Day)
Graham Joyce (for Colin Forsyth)	15	Terry Ramshaw (for Barry Hollis)
Peter Fox	Coach	??

18	score	8
7	HT	5

	Scorers
	Tries
Les Gant (1)	T	Gary Smith (1)
Derrick Parker (1)	T
Alan Redfearn (1)	T
Bob Haigh (1)	T
	Goals
Neil Fox (3)	G	Barry Banks (2)
	Drop Goals
	DG	Barry Hollis (1)
Referee		Michael "Mick" J. Naughton (Widnes)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match		Bob Haigh - Bradford Northern - loose forward
sponsored by
Competition Sponsor		Esso

Scoring - Try = three points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point

1978–79 Northern Rugby Football League season
Rugby league county cups
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

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