The club's heyday was in the 1970s where they won the Yorkshire Cup on five occasions.

Northern also won the Yorkshire Cup final 7-2 against Hull.

Rovers' first major silverware was won in 1939/40, when they lifted the Yorkshire Cup.

They had been hammered 36-9 by the same opposition in the Yorkshire Cup final earlier that season.

In 1903 the club played Canada and two years later they won the Yorkshire Cup for the first time.

The Yorkshire Cup was abandoned from 1940 to 1944.

Between 1905 and 1993, a Yorkshire Cup was competed for by the professional sides.

The team held the Yorkshire Cup seven times between 1969 and 1980.

During this period the Yorkshire Cup final was played over two legs, with aggregate score being used.

The club achieved its first major success by winning the Yorkshire Cup in 1884.