1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
| Event | 1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 26 September 1943 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | Patrick McKenna (Limerick) | ||||||
| Attendance | 68,023 | ||||||
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| Date | 10 October 1943 | ||||||
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| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | P O Miotain (Wexford) | ||||||
| Attendance | 47,193 | ||||||
The 1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 56th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Matches
[edit]Summary
[edit]Roscommon defeated Cavan after a replay to win their first title.[1]
Cavan finished the replay with fourteen men after Joe Stafford was dismissed with fifteen minutes remaining.[2]
Details
[edit]Roscommon (is the replay or the drawn game?) =
- 1 F. Glynn
- 2 L. Cummins
- 3 J. P. O'Callaghan
- 4 B. Jackson
- 5 B. Lynch
- 6 B. Carlos
- 7 B. Heavey
- 8 É. Boland
- 9 L. Gilmartin
- 10 P. Murray
- 11 J Murray (c)
- 12 D. Keenan
- 13 D. McDermott
- 14 J. McQuillan
- 15 F. Kinlough
- Trainer
- T. Heneghan
References
[edit]- ^ "The story of the 1943 All-Ireland football rescued from a fire". RTÉ.ie. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ Kelly, Tom (3 February 2010). "A football life less ordinary". The Anglo-Celt. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011.
In 1943 [Mick Higgins] was left-half forward on the team that lost to Roscommon in the replayed All-Ireland final. Cavan had finished that game with fourteen players when Joe Stafford had been ordered off with fifteen minutes left.