1941 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship

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1941 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship
All Ireland Champions
Winners Kerry (8th win)
CaptainTim Brosnan
All Ireland Runners-up
Runners-up Cavan
CaptainJ.F. McGahern
Provincial Champions
Munster Kerry
Leinster Laois
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Leitrim
1940
1946

The 1941 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship was the 24th staging of the All-Ireland Junior Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1912.

Roscommon entered the championship as the defending champions, but lost to Leitrim in the opening round of the Connacht Championship. [1]

The All-Ireland final was played on 21 September 1941 at Croke Park between Kerry and Cavan, in what was the first ever meeting of the two counties in the final. Kerry won the match by 0–09 to 0–04 to claim their sixth championship title overall and a first since 1930.

Results

Munster Junior Football Championship

3 August 1941 [2] Final Colours of Tipperary.svg Tipperary 0-03 - 1-10 Colours of Kerry GAA.svg Kerry Seán Treacy Park, Tipperary
Referee: P. McKenna (Limerick)

Leinster Junior Football Championship

13 July 1941 [3] Final Colours of Laois.svg Laois 2-07 - 2-05 Colours of Louth.svg Louth Croke Park, Dublin
Referee: P. Dunne (Dublin)

Ulster Junior Football Championship

29 June 1941 [4] Final Colours of Cavan.svg Cavan 2-07 - 1-08 Colours of Armagh.svg Armagh Castleblayney, Monaghan
Referee: H. McEneaney (Monaghan)

Connacht Junior Football Championship

3 August 1941 [5] Final Colours of Leitrim.svg Leitrim 3-09 - 1-07 Colours of Galway.svg Galway Tuam Stadium, Galway
Referee: M. Jennings (Sligo)

All-Ireland semi-finals

17 August 1941 [6] Colours of Laois.svg Laois 4-06 - 3-09 Colours of Kerry GAA.svg Kerry O'Moore Park, Portlaoise
Referee: C. Nolan (Carlow)
31 August 1941 [7] Replay Colours of Kerry GAA.svg Kerry 3-07 - 1-00 Colours of Laois.svg Laois Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney
Referee: P. Dunne (Dublin)
24 August 1941 [8] Colours of Cavan.svg Cavan 1-06 - 1-05 Colours of Leitrim.svg Leitrim Breffni Park, Cavan
Referee: P. Ratty (Meath)

All-Ireland final

21 September 1941 [9] Colours of Kerry GAA.svg Kerry 0-09 - 0-04 Colours of Cavan.svg Cavan Croke Park, Dublin
T. Long 0-6, P. O'Donoghue, T. Lyne, P. McCarthy 0-1 eachJ. Devlin 0-3 (3f), B. Hunt 0-1Referee: J. Flaherty (Offaly)

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References

  1. "Leitrim Good Winners". Roscommon Herald . 21 June 1941.
  2. "Waterford and Tipperary Succumb to Limerick and Kerry". Nationalist and Munster Advertiser . 6 August 1941.
  3. "Junior Title For Laoighis". Irish Independent . 14 July 1941.
  4. "Cavan First 1941 Champions". Irish Press . 30 June 1941.
  5. "Leitrim Win Connacht Junior Final". Leitrim Observer . 9 August 1941.
  6. "Kerry Juniors Draw". Evening Echo . 18 August 1941.
  7. "Kerry Juniors Cake-walk Replay". Irish Press . 1 September 1941.
  8. "Leitrim Unlucky - Cavan For Junior Football Final". Irish Examiner . 25 August 1941.
  9. "Kerry Juniors Complete The Double". The Kerryman . 27 September 1941.