1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
Event 1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date26 September 1943
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance68,023
1942
1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Final Replay
1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final replay programme.jpg
Date10 October 1943
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Referee P O Miotain (Wexford)
Attendance47,193
1944
The Roscommon team that won the competition Roscommon GAA 1943 All-Ireland Winners.jpg
The Roscommon team that won the competition

The 1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 56th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Roscommon defeated Cavan after a replay to win their first title. [1]

Cavan finished the replay with fourteen men after Joe Stafford was dismissed with fifteen minutes remaining. [2]

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References

  1. "The story of the 1943 All-Ireland football rescued from a fire". RTE Sport. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  2. Kelly, Tom (3 February 2010). "A football life less ordinary". The Anglo-Celt . Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. In 1943 [Mick Higgins] was left-half forward on the team that lost to Roscommon in the replayed All-Ireland final. Cavan had finished that game with fourteen players when Joe Stafford had been ordered off with fifteen minutes left.