1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Wexford, champions
Event1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Wexford Tipperary
0–5 0–4
Date16 February 1919
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
RefereePat Dunphy (Laois)[1]
Attendance12,000
Weatherfine 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

Wexford0-5 – 0-4 Tipperary[6]
J. Redmond, P. Todd 0-2 each, J. Byrne 0-1 G. McCarthy 0-2, J. Skinner, T. Ryan 0-1 each
GK1Tom McGrath
RCB2Nick Stewart
FB3Paddy Mackey
LCB4Jem Byrne (c)
RHB5Tom Murphy
CHB6Tom Doyle
LHB7Martin Howlett
MF8Bill Hodgins
MF9John Doran
RHF10Jack Crowley
CHF11Rich Reynolds
LHF12Pierse Todd
RCF13Aidan Doyle
FF14Gus O'Kennedy
LCF15Jim Redmond
GK1Arthur Carroll
RCB2Jimmy McNamara
FB3Ned O'Shea (c)
LCB4Jerry Shelly
RHB5Bill Ryan
CHB6Ned Egan
LHB7Tommy Powell
MF8Tommy Ryan
MF9Tom Quinlan
RHF10Jim Ryan
CHF11Bill Grant
LHF12Jack Skinner
RCF13Dick Heffernan
FF14Gus McCarthy
LCF15John O'Shea

See also

References

  1. ↑ O'Connell, Cian (9 December 2016). "1916 All Ireland referees remembered". Archived from the original on 18 August 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  2. ↑ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  3. ↑ "How the sporting world reacted to the Spanish Flu". Anthony Pyne. RTÉ Sport. 14 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "Football Final - Wexford Wins For Fourth Time". The Nationalist. 19 February 1919.
  5. ↑ "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
  6. ↑ "Tipperary – Munster Senior Champions 1918". Friends of Tipperary Football. 19 April 2018.
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