Yorkshire Regiment Trophy

 The Yorkshire Regiment Trophy was introduced at the start of the 2012-13 season when all three Yorkshire sides were competing against each other in the Championship. The Yorkshire Regiment Trophy was approved by the RFU Championship Clubs Committee as a venture to aid the development of rugby union in the North of England. The Yorkshire Regiment kindly collaborated with the clubs as a means of strengthening the Yorkshire connection. The six meetings between the three sides each season in the Greene King IPA Championship not only earn vital league points but are also entered into a Yorkshire mini league with the top team being presented with the Yorkshire Regiment Trophy once all the games are completed. 

Knightandday

Many thanks for the clarification, you have furthered my education!
Good to see the Knights are still in the Championship for next season.
Best of luck in 2020-21.

Knightandday, please excuse jibberish in first line above, don't know what happened!

Islander,

I found your account of the Yorkshire Regiment's Cup very interesting especially when you mentioned the three Yorkshire regiments which form the present Yorkshire Regiment. Just in passing may I mention a fourth Yorkshire regiment, namely the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, the KOYLI's, who were formed in 1881. In 1968 they merged with the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry and the King's Shropshire Light Infantry to form a new regiment, The Light Infantry. This regiment in turn merged with the Devon and Dorset's, the Royal Gloucester's, the Berkshire and Wiltshire's and the Royal Green Jackets in 2007 to become The Rifles. The Regimental Depot of the KOYLI's was in Pontefract.

The Duke's certainly had a very good rugby pedigree and I well remember one of their members, Brian Saville a very good centre or off-half, who played for Hull FC in the late 1950's whilst also playing for the Dukes's in Army rugby.

isleonian wrote: Much more recently was Rodber in the Howards?