Teams 16 Runners-up Featherstone Rovers | Winners Leeds | |
Structure Regional knockout championship | ||
The 1970 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Contents
- Background
- Competition and Results
- Round 2 Quarter Finals
- Round 3 Semi Finals
- Teams and Scorers
- References
Leeds won the trophy by beating Featherstone Rovers by the score of 23–7
The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 6,753 and receipts were £1,879
This was Featherstone Rovers's second Yorkshire Cup final defeat in successive competitions
Background
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entants 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
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
Teams and Scorers
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points