1893 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1893 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
1893 All-Ireland winners plaque, Wexford.jpg
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Wexford (1st win)
CaptainTom Hayes
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team Cork
Provincial Champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Wexford
Championship statistics
1892
1894

The 1893 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the seventh staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. The previous two years' All-Ireland champions Dublin did not take part in the Leinster Championship called off game against Kilkenny. Wexford were the champions. [1] [2]

Contents

Results

Leinster

Dublin 0-0 – 0-0 Kilkenny

Wexford 2-6 – 0-1 Westmeath

Wexford 0-1 – 0-5
Unfinished
Kilkenny

Kilkenny refused to take the field for the second half in protest at rough play by the Wexford team. Wexford were awarded the Leinster title. [3]

Munster

Cork 0-4 – 0-3 Tipperary

Cork 2-3 – 1-4 Kerry

All-Ireland final

Wexford 1-1 – 0-1 Cork
Phoenix Park, Dublin
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: T Gilligan (Dublin)

Statistics

References

  1. "Football Results 1887 - 1910 | the Official Website of the GAA". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "The G.A.A.", The Kerry Sentinel, 4 April 1894, p. 3