1945 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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1945 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
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Event 1945 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date23 September 1945
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Referee John Dunne (Galway)
Attendance67,329
1944
1946

The 1945 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was a Gaelic football match played at Croke Park on 23 September 1945 to determine the winners of the 1945 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the 59th season of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champions of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Cork of Munster and Cavan of Ulster, with Cork winning by 2–5 to 0–7. [1] [2]

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In what was only the second ever championship meeting between the two sides, Cork were regarded as outsiders against a Cavan side who had dominated their province for over a decade without adding an All-Ireland title. The Breffni Men, who had the advantage of the elements in the first half, got the opening score when T. P. O'Reilly pointed after five minutes. The advantage turned in Cork's favour three minutes later when Éamonn Young and Derry Beckett combined to put Mick Tubridy in for a goal. Cavan quickly equalized before Derry Beckett scored a point from a free. Further points from Tubridy (two) and Humphrey O'Neill in response to two from P. J. Duke and Tony Tighe left Cork in the lead by 1–4 to 0–5 at the interval.

Derry Beckett, from a narrow angle, increased Cork's lead shortly after resuming before Cavan, again aided by the elements as the wind had changed, got a grip on the exchanges. The Cork defence held strong under twenty minutes of intense pressure from the Cavan forwards, and limited the northerners to two points from Peter Donohoe and Joe Stafford. After moving to midfield Jack Lynch lifted the siege and set up a quick move involving Tubridy and Young which created an opportunity for Derry Beckett to score the clinching goal.

Cork's All-Ireland victory was their first since 1911. The win gave them their third All-Ireland title over all and put them joint sixth on the all-time roll of honour along with Galway.

Cavan's All-Ireland defeat was their second in three years and their third in succession since winning their last championship decider in 1935.

For some Cork players there was a happy symmetry with Cork's last All-Ireland victory. Éamonn Young's father, Jack, and Derry Beckett's father, Jerry, had won All-Ireland medals as members of the Cork team in 1911. Beckett also joined an elite list of dual player's who had won All-Ireland medals in both football and hurling. He had previously won an All-Ireland medal with the Cork hurling team in 1942. Paddy "Hitler" Healy also joined this elite group, winning an All-Ireland medal as a substitute to supplement the winners' medal he claimed on the field of play with the Cork hurlers in 1944. [3]

Cork's Jack Lynch also became a dual All-Ireland medallist, however, his achievement was the most spectacular of all. He had won four successive All-Ireland medals with the Cork senior hurling team between 1941 and 1944. [4] In joining in the footballers success Lynch became the first player to win five All-Ireland medals in succession.

The annexing of the All-Ireland title was also a major triumph for the Clonakilty club in West Cork as they provided no fewer than eight players to the Cork panel.

Match

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D Beckett (1-2)
M Tubridy (1-1)
H O'Neill (0-1)
J Lynch (0-1).
J Stafford (0-4)
TP O'Reilly (0-2)
T Tighe (0-1).
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 67,329
Referee: John Dunne (Galway) [5]
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Cork
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Cavan
GK1 Moll O'Driscoll
RCB2 Dave Magnier
FB3 P. A. Murphy
LCB4 Caleb Crone
RWB5 Paddy Cronin
CB6 Tadhgo Crowley (c)
LWB7 Denis Connors
M8 Éamonn Young
M9 Fachtna O'Donovan
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CF11 Humphrey O'Neill
LWF12 Mick Tubridy
RCF13 Jack Lynch
FF14 Jim Cronin
LCF15 Derry Beckett
Substitutes:
16 Seán Kavanagh
17 Brendan Murphy
18 Seán Linehan
19 Mick Finn
20 Dessie Cullinane
21 Paddy Healy
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23 Tadhg O'Driscoll
24 Paddy O'Grady
GK1 Brendan Kelly
RCB2 Tom O'Reilly (c)
FB3 Barney Cully
LCB4 Peter Paul Galligan
RWB5 John Wilson
CB6 John Joe O'Reilly
LWB7 Paddy Smith
M8 Tony Tighe
M9 Simon Deignan
RWF10 A. Commiskey
CF11 Jack Boylan
LWF12 T. P. O'Reilly
RCF13 Joe Stafford
FF14 Peter Donohoe
LCF15 P. J. Duke

MATCH RULES

References

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  2. Hurley, Denis (21 June 2014). "When Tipp held an Indian sign over struggling Rebels". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  3. Breheny, Martin (28 August 2001). "Teddy sounds warning to dual chasing Kerins". Irish Independent. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  4. Fitzpatrick, Richard (11 July 2014). "Ring's 1944 goal opened door to four-in-a-row". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  5. "One man's decades of dedication to the cause". Irish Times. 18 July 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2015.