Teams 16 Runners-up Castleford | Winners Leeds | |
Structure Regional knockout championship | ||
The 1968 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-first occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Leeds won the trophy by beating Castleford by the score of 22-11. The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 12,573 and receipts were £3,746.
Contents
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.
Round 1
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs
Round 2 - Quarterfinals
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
Round 2 - Replays
Involved 1 match and 2 clubs
Round 3 – Semifinals
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Teams and scorers
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
References
1968 Yorkshire Cup Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA