1887 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1887 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Limerick gaelick football team 1887.jpg
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Limerick (1st win)
CaptainDenis Corbett
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team Louth
Provincial Champions
Munster Not played
Leinster Not played
Ulster Not played
Connacht Not played
Championship statistics
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The 1887 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship is the first edition of GAA's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament, played between 12 counties of Ireland. The tournament featured club teams who represented their respective counties after their county championship. The 21 a-side final was between Commercials of Limerick and Young Irelands of Louth. The final was played in Beech Hill, Donnybrook on April 29, 1888, with Commercials winning by 1-4 to 0-3. Unlike later All-Irelands, there were no provincial championships and it was an open draw. [1]

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Format

The 1887 championship was the only to be held as an open-draw knockout tournament, without provincial championships.

Representative clubs

From 1887 until 1891 the club champions represented the whole county. In the very first All-Ireland championship the participating counties were represented by the following clubs:

CountyClub
Clare
Cork Lees
Kilkenny Kilmacow
Limerick Commercials
Louth Dundalk Young Irelands
Meath Dowdstown
Tipperary
Waterford Ballyduff Lower
Wexford Castlebridge

Results

First round

First round
Louth 1-8-2 – 0-4-1 Waterford
Charles McAlester (goal) [2]
Elm Park, Merrion, Dublin
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Willie Halpin (Clare)
First round
Limerick 3-2 – 0-2 Meath
[2]
Elm Park, Merrion, Dublin
Attendance: 10,000
First round
Kilkenny 0-4 – 0-0 Cork
[2]
Dungarvan
First round
Tipperary w/o – scr. Dublin
[2]
First round
Wexford w/o – scr. Galway
First round
Clare w/o – scr. Wicklow
[2]

Second round

Second round
Louth 0-7-3 – 0-5-3 Wexford
[2]
St. Patrick’s club grounds, Kilmainham
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: J.K. Bracken (Tipperary)
Second round
Tipperary 1-2 – 0-2 Clare
Bansha, Tipperary
Second round
Limerick 1-10 – 1-10 Kilkenny
[2]
St. Patrick’s club grounds, Kilmainham
Attendance: 5,000
Second Round Replay
Limerick 1-3 – 0-5 Kilkenny
[2]
Bansha

Semi-final

Semi-final
Limerick 1-1 – 0-0 Tipperary
[2]
Bohermore


Final

Final
Limerick 1-4-0 – 0-3-0 Louth
[2]
Beech Hill, Donnybrook, Dublin
Referee: John Cullinane (Tipperary)

Miscellaneous

References

  1. ↑ Montague, Trevor (2004). A to Z of Sport: The Compendium of Sporting Knowledge. Little Brown. p. 356. ISBN   978-0-316-72645-0.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Mulligan, John (2008) 1887 All-Ireland Championship Dundalk Young Irelands Gaelic Football Club
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