Teams 16 Runners-up York | Winners Bradford Northern | |
Structure Regional knockout championship | ||
The 1978 Yorkshire Cup was the seventy-first occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Contents
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 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.
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
Teams and Scorers
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point
References
1978 Yorkshire Cup Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA