Timeline

1978-1979

Never write off Leeds! Approaching the end of a fruitless campaign, with pride in pawn and honour in hock the men in blue and amber redeemed themselves in a glorious grandstand finish for the third....

1977-1978

Escapologists in blue and amber! Knocked out in the early rounds of all the Cup competitions but one, and trailing in the League, Leeds extricated themselves from the shackles of mediocrity, with a....

1976-1977

The Willows and Wembley! Poles apart in a bitter-sweet world of tears and laughter! Unutterable grief, as we learned of Chris Sanderson’s death; unspeakable pride, as the Challenge Cup was rai....

1975-1976

One by one, the peaks of glory which had dominated the Headingley horizon for almost a decade, were obscured by the mists of failure, as Leeds ended a comparatively disappointing season with merely....

1974-1975

No Yorkshire Cup! No John Player Trophy! No Floodlit Trophy! No Wembley! The inexorable wheel of fate had, it seemed, turned full circle; yet no sooner had we resigned ourselves to living off a ric....

1973-1974

It was back to two Divisions, and a fixture programme which had neither rhyme nor reason: the first half of the season, cluttered with knock-out competitions, reduced spectator to confusion and bew....

1972-1973

Yorkshire Cup Winners, John Player Trophy Winners, and Championship runners-up! The honours gained were considerable, the entertainment provided not quite as attractive as in previous seasons. At t....

1971-1972

The season opened under a cloud, with Leeds withdrawing from the Yorkshire Cup Competition, in protest against the 1st Round ties being played in late July; it ended in a blaze of glory, with the L....

1970-1971

This was a bitter-sweet season of pomp and cruel circumstance; two cup triumphs; many glorious displays; a sad day at Wembley; and, over all, the shadow cast by the grievous injury sustained by Mic....