1928 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1928 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Kildare (4th win)
Captain Bill 'Squires' Gannon
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team Cavan
Captain Jim Smith
Provincial Champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Kildare
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Sligo
Championship statistics
← 1927
1929 →

The 1928 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 42nd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kildare were the winners. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Leitrim 1–0 – 1–0 Galway
Roscommon
Leitrim 0–7 – 0–3 Galway
Roscommon
Mayo 1–5 – 0–3 Roscommon
J Forde (1–0).
Ballyhaunis
Sligo 1–5 – 0–2 Leitrim
Boyle
Attendance: 5,000
Sligo 1–4 – 0–6 Mayo
JJ Walsh (0–2), G Courell (0–3, two frees).
Tuam
Attendance: 9,000

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Quarter-Final
Wexford 7–7 – 3–4 Kilkenny
New Ross
Quarter-Final
Longford 3–4 – 0–11 Meath
Mullingar
Quarter-Final
Dublin 0–5 – 0–3 Louth
Navan
Quarter-Final
Kildare 0–4 – 1–0 Laois
A. O'Neill, J. Loughlin, F. Malone, T. Keogh 0–1 each Report J. Brown 1–0
Geraldine Park, Athy
Referee: S. J. Donnelly (Dublin)
Semi-Final
Kildare 3–6 – 0–2 Longford
P Ryan 2–1; P Pringle 1–0; P. Martin 0–2; J Curtis, P Loughlin, Keogh 0–1 each Report M. Deane 0–2
Croke Park, Dublin
Referee: J. Byrne (Louth)
Semi-Final
Dublin 3–3 – 0–4 Wexford
Croke Park, Dublin
Referee: T. Burke (Louth)
Final
Kildare 0–10 – 1–6 Dublin
Paul Doyle (0-2f) and Paddy Loughlin 0–3 each, Joe Curtis 0–2, Paddy Martin and Tom Keogh 0–1 each Report M Durnin 1–0, Joe Synott 0–3, Jack Reilly, Joe Stynes, Mick O'Brien 0–1 each
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Jim Byrne (Wexford)

Munster Senior Football Championship

Quarter-Final
Kerry 3–4 – 0–5 Clare
J O'Connor 1–0, P Russell 0–3, P Whitty 0–1
The Cricket Field, Kilrush
Semi-Final
Tipperary 1–7 – 2–3 Kerry
J J Sheehy 1–2, N Sweeney 1–0, P Russell 0–1
Tipperary
Referee: W. Walsh (Waterford)
Final
Cork 4–3 – 0–4 Tipperary
Fraher Field, Dungarvan
Referee: P. Whelan (W)

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Tyrone 7–3 – 2–3 Derry
Dungannon
Monaghan 3–5 – 1–3 Down
St. Mary's Park, Castleblayney
Armagh 6–3 – 1–7 Fermanagh
Brewster Park, Enniskillen
Cavan 1–5 – 0–2 Antrim
Belturbet
Armagh 0–4 – 0–1 Monaghan
Carrickmacross
Cavan 4–3 – 0–4 Tyrone
Dungannon
Cavan 2–6 – 1–4 Armagh
Breffni Park, Cavan
Attendance: 6,000

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Cavan 2–5 – 0–4 Sligo
Breffni Park, Cavan
Kildare 3–7 – 0–2 Cork
W.Mangan 3–0, P.Doyle 0–5, J.Curtis, P.Loughlin 0–1.
Croke Park, Dublin
Referee: J. Shevlin (Roscommon)
Kildare 2–6 – 2–5 Cavan
P.Doyle 0–5, W.Mangan, P.Loughlin 1–0, T.Keogh 0–1.
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 24,700
Referee: Tom Burke (Louth)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

Roll of Honour

References

  1. ↑ "Football Results 1911 – 1940 | the Official Website of the GAA". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  2. ↑ "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "Leinster Senior Football Champions" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.

Beaten By A Point (1928) on YouTube, a British Pathé newsreel of the Kildare-Dublin Leinster final

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