1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Wexford, champions | |||||||
| Event | 1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 16 February 1919 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | Pat Dunphy (Laois)[1] | ||||||
| Attendance | 12,000 | ||||||
| Weather | fine but bitterly cold | ||||||
The 1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 31st All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Match
Summary
Tipperary's preparations were severely hampered by military regulations following the Soloheadbeg ambush, not to mention the death of Davey Tobin by Spanish flu. A disallowed goal and a last-minute miss by Gus McCarthy were enough to allow Wexford to complete a four-in-a-row.[2] The match, played on 16 February 1919, had been postponed from the previous autumn due to the spread of the flu.[3]
Leading 0-3 to 0-2 at half-time, Wexford eventually won by a point to claim their fourth of four All-Ireland SFC titles in the 1910s.[4][5] They have not since appeared in an All-Ireland football final.
Team Details
| Wexford | 0-5 – 0-4 | Tipperary[6] |
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| J. Redmond, P. Todd 0-2 each, J. Byrne 0-1 | G. McCarthy 0-2, J. Skinner, T. Ryan 0-1 each |
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See also
- 1956 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final, also postponed due to an outbreak of infectious disease
- 2021 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final, also postponed due to an outbreak of infectious disease
References
- ^ O'Connell, Cian (9 December 2016). "1916 All Ireland referees remembered".
- ^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- ^ "How the sporting world reacted to the Spanish Flu". Anthony Pyne. RTÉ Sport. 14 March 2020.
- ^ "Football Final - Wexford Wins For Fourth Time". The Nationalist. 19 February 1919.
- ^ "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
- ^ "Tipperary – Munster Senior Champions 1918". Friends of Tipperary Football. 19 April 2018.