1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Wexford (5th win)
Captain Jem Byrne [1]
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team Tipperary
Provincial Champions
Munster Tipperary
Leinster Wexford
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Mayo
Championship statistics
1917
1919

The 1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 32nd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Wexford won a record fourth title in a row, an achievement which had never been completed. [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Roscommon 0-5 – 1-4 Leitrim

Mayo 1-6 – 1-0 Sligo

Galway 1-5 – 1-0 Leitrim

Mayo 0-4 – 0-1 Galway

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Preliminary Round
Westmeath 3-3 – 0-3 Longford

Preliminary Round
Louth 1-4 – 0-3 Meath

Preliminary Round
Wexford 2-2 – 0-3 Laois

Quarter-Final
Carlow 4-3 – 0-1 Wicklow

Quarter-Final
Wexford 2-6 – 0-1 Kilkenny

Quarter-Final
Westmeath 4-4 – 1-2 Offaly

Quarter-Final
Louth 3-5 – 3-3 Dublin
Report
Shamrock Lodge, Drogheda
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Mr P Duffy

Quarter-Final
Kildare 4-2 – 0-3 Westmeath

Semi-Final
Wexford 5-8 – 2-2 Carlow

Semi-Final
Kildare 0-1 – 0-7 Louth
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 5,000 - 6,000

Final
Wexford 2-5 – 1-4 Louth
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Maurice J. Collins (Dublin)
GK1Tom McGrath
RCB2Nick Stewart
FB3 Paddy Mackey
LCB4 Jem Byrne (c)
RHB5Tom Murphy
CHB6Tom Doyle
LHB7Martin Howlett
MF8 Bill Hodgins
MF9John Doran
RHF10Jack Crowley
CHF11Rich Reynolds
LHF12 Pierse Todd
RCF13Aidan Doyle
FF14Gus O'Kennedy
LCF15Jim Redmond
GK1Willie Donough (Drogheda Stars)
RCB2John Clarke (Tredaghs)
FB3Jack Murray (Drogheda Stars)
LCB4Peter Kiely (Eamonn Ceannt's)
RHB5 Jim Smith (Tredaghs)
CHB6Nick Butterly (Drogheda Stars)
LHB7Pat Balfe (Tredaghs)
MF8 Larry McCormack (Tredaghs)
MF9Paddy Lambe (Drogheda Stars)
RHF10 Eoin Markey (Eamonn Ceannt's)
CHF11 Tom Burke (Drogheda Stars) (c)
LHF12Joe Burke (Drogheda Stars)
RCF13Nick Murphy (Drogheda Stars)
FF14Andy Tipping (Dundalk O'Rahilly's)
LCF15Frank Byrne (Tredaghs)
Substitutes used:
16Larry Feehan (Dundalk Young Irelands)
17Jim Morgan (Dundalk Young Irelands)

Munster Senior Football Championship

Waterford won – lost Limerick

Tipperary 1-5 – 0-2 Cork
Referee: A. Quillinan (Limerick)

Tipperary 4-4 – 0-0 Waterford

Kerry 5-3 – 1-3 Clare

Tipperary 1-1 – 0-1 Kerry
Referee: M. Mehigan ( C )

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Antrim 4-1 – 2-4 Derry

Armagh 0-5 – 0-4 Down

Cavan 1-4 – 1-2 Fermanagh

Monaghan 4-4 – 1-0 Tyrone

Antrim 1-2 – 0-3 Monaghan

Cavan 2-4 – 0-0 Armagh
Cootehill
Attendance: 3,000

Cavan 3-2 – 0-0 Antrim

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

By the time the semi-final was to be played, the Leinster championship was not finished, so Louth were nominated to represent Leinster. When Wexford beat Louth in the Leinster final, they were given Louth's place in the All-Ireland final.

Louth 2-4 – 0-4 Cavan

Tipperary 2-2 – 1-4 Mayo
Croke Park, Dublin
Referee: J. McGrath

Wexford 0-5 – 0-4 Tipperary
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Patrick Dunphy (Laois)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

Roll of Honour

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