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Town juniors qualified for the first round of the FA Youth Cup by beating Lancaster City 8-0 at Leeds Road. Part o the reason for the walkover was the fact the Lancastrians turned up with only 10 men and then another player was sent off early in he game. Andy Booth - who has gone on to become a legend at te club - was on the scoresheet. The victorious team is (back, from left) Wayne McKenzie, Simon Collins, Andrew Booth, Paul Thompson, Brendan Aspinall, Thomas Mooney and Stephen Payne and (front, from left) Rodney Rowe, Marc Forrest, John Dysart, Anthony Brennan, Scot Whithead and Sean Wood
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Marsden beat a Central Lancashire side and sponsor Steve Brooksbank from the Sovereign Motor Company at Shepley is pictured with team captains Dave Nosworthy (left) and Colin Wroe, surrounded by the players
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Skelmanthorpe speedway rider Darren Pearson smashed the reserve team track record when he made his debut for Bradford Dukes at Odsal. The 16-year-old shaved just one-tenth of a second off the old record
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Kirkburton Old Boys won the Emmerson Cup with victory over Carlton Sports and they are (from left) scorer Penny Cooper, Mick Cooper, David Hennigan, Mick Harrison, Martin Howbridge, Dave Ingham, Howard Russell and Alan Sparrow and (front, from left) Steven Ellam, Keith Burkinshaw, John Glithro, John Hirst, Paul Booth and Adrian Leech
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Longley Park members George Bottomley (left) and Alan Cook had plenty to celebrate as both notched up holes in one in a competition at Richmond in North Yorkshire. Alan went on to win the Tigers section in the tournament. Both them followed the time honoured tradition of buying a bottle of whisky to be shared with their clubmates
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Long distance runner Gary Shopland clocked up 50 miles without leaving a supermarket foyer. Gary, whose previous long distance endurance tests included a run through the Death Valley in he USA that was featured on TV, ran the miles on a treadmill in the foyer at Asda in Birkby. He raised money for the West Yorkshire Police Kiddicare appeal. Gary's pictured on the treadmill with store manager Graham Phillips (right), fellow runner Steve Ward (left) and other staff from the store
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These 'old boys' from Marsh United Bowling Club had forgotten how to lose atter storming to victory in Section IV of the Huddersfield Veterans League, winning all their 22 games on he way. They are (back row, from left) S Archer, H Walker, F Hey, G Farrar, S Haigh, D Taylor, W Ingleby and C Armstrong and (front, from left) F Kenningley, T Dunne, H Hardcastle, J Bottomley and G Akroyd
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Bradley played a touring Canadian side at Warrenside, beating them 4-1 and before the game Bradley Under 18 player Desmond Facey (right) is pictured with Bill Nauta, captain of Canadian side Woolwich Fergus
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Former Fartown player Keith Senior was asked to help coaches Franny Jarvis and Mick Blacker by giving specialist training to the club's wingers. Ken was a winger at Fartown and played twice for Great Britain in the 1960s. He is pictured (right) passing tips on to (rom left) Richard Darkes, Rudi Corion, Bob Jowett, Ian Thomas and Chris Chapman
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Woodsome Hall professional Mike Grantham passes on a few tips to the under 14s who attended a coaching course organised by the Yorkshire Ladies Golf Union and held at the club. Youngsters pictured are (from left) Lucy Pratt, Natalie Jackson, Gemma Turner, Lidia Douglas, Lisa Hanley, Emma Richardson and Debbie Mann
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Skelmanthorpe won the mini-cricket masters when they won the Examiner sponsored eight-a-side competition for the second year running at Slaithwaite. Pakistani professional Shahid Mahboob was the chief architect of his side's four wicket victory over Slaithwaite. Skelmanthorpe skipper Graham Higgins (right) and Slaithwaite captain Steve Mace are pictured with Examiner sports editor John Gledhill and the trophy before the final which attracted a 500-strong crowd to the Hill Top ground