1952 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1952 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Cavan (5th win)
Captain Mick Higgins
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team Meath
Captain Paddy Meegan
Provincial Champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Meath
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Roscommon
Championship statistics
1951
1953

The 1952 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 66th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

Contents

Limerick play in their last Munster championship game until 1965.

In the Connacht final Roscommon ended Mayo's 2 year spell as All Ireland champions.

Cavan won their fifth, and so far last, All-Ireland title. [1] [2] [3]

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Note it was the smallest Connacht championship until 2020. Leitrim were not part of the championship.

Mayo 0–9 – 0–6 Sligo
E Mongey (0-1), M Mulderrig (0-1), P Carney (0-4), S Mulderrig (0-2); M Flanagan & T Langan (0-1).
Fr. O'Hara Park, Charlestown
Attendance: 10,000

Roscommon 1–6 – 1–5 Galway

Roscommon 3–4 – 0–6 Mayo
E Mongey (0-1), P Carney (0-2, one free), S Mulderrig (0-1), T Langan (0-1) & M Loftus (0-1).

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Longford 3–8 – 0–5 Kildare
S.Brennan 0-2, P.White, K.Boyle, J.Clarke 0-1

Offaly 0–8 – 1–1 Westmeath
Cusack Park, Mullingar
Referee: P Russell

Carlow 2–8 – 1–7 Wicklow

Meath 2–7 – 2–5 Dublin

Louth 0–9 – 1–2 Wexford

Offaly 0–7 – 0–9 Longford
Cusack Park, Mullingar
Referee: P Woods

Louth 3–11 – 0–4 Carlow
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 25,000

Meath 1–9 – 0–9 Longford

Final

Colours of Meath.svg Meath 1–06 – 0–08 Colours of Louth.svg Louth
Brian Smyth (1-0), Paddy Meegan (0-3, 0-2f), Jim Reilly (0-1), Paddy Connell (0-1), Peter McDermott (0-1)Paddy Beahan (0-3), Nicky Roe (0-3, 2f), Stephen White (0-1), Mick Reynolds (0-1)
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 44,365
Referee: Bill Delaney (Laois)
GK1Owen O'Sullivan
RCB2 Micheál O'Brien
FB3 Paddy O'Brien
LCB4 Kevin McConnell
RHB5Patsy McGearty
CHB6Connie Kelly
LHB7 Christo Hand
MF8Brendan Maguire
MF9Mattie McDonnell
RHF10Pat Carolan
CHF11 Brian Smyth
LHF12 Paddy Meegan (c)
RCF13 Jim Reilly
FF14Paddy Connell
LCF15 Peter McDermott
Substitutes:
16 Paddy Dixon for Micheál O'Brien
17Des Taaffe for Carolan
GK1Niall O'Neill (Dundalk Gaels)
RCB2Jim McArdle (Dundalk Young Irelands)
FB3Tom Conlon (Stabannon Parnells)
LCB4Jim Tuft (Dundalk Young Irelands)
RHB5Michael McDonnell (Darver Volunteers)
CHB6Paddy Markey (St Mary's) (c)
LHB7Paddy McArdle (St Mary's)
MF8Hubert Reynolds (Dundalk Gaels)
MF9Jack Regan (Dundalk Gaels)
RHF10Peadar Smith (Oliver Plunketts)
CHF11Paddy Beahan (St Mary's)
LHF12 Stephen White (Dundalk Young Irelands)
RCF13Nicky Roe (St Mary's)
FF14 Jimmy McDonnell (Darver Volunteers)
LCF15Mickey Reynolds (Stabannon Parnells)
Substitutes:

Munster Senior Football Championship

Waterford 1–3 – 0–5 Clare

Tipperary 0–9 – 1–4 Limerick
Referee: A. Scannell ( C )

Cork 1–7 – 0–5 Tipperary
D. Kellaher (0-1), E. Young (0-1), T. Moriaty (0-2), M. Cahill (0-1), C. McGrath (0-1) & J. Cronin (1-1).
Referee: P. J. Ryan (L)

Kerry 0–14 – 1–7 Waterford
P. Sheehy (0-4), T. Lyne (0-3), J. Brosnan (0-2) & S. Kelly (0-5).

Cork 0–11 – 0–2 Kerry
D. O’Donovan (0-2), E. Young (0-1), J. Cronin (0-3), J. J. Henchion (0-1) & C. McGrath (0-4).J. Brosnan (0-1) & sub B. Galvin (0-1).

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Cavan 2–10 – 1–3 Down

Armagh 1–8 – 1–6 Tyrone

Monaghan 2–12 – 0–12 Derry

Antrim 1–7 – 2–3 Donegal
Attendance: 5,000

Monaghan 1–8 – 1–5 Armagh
Attendance: 8,000

Cavan 3–6 – 2–6 Antrim

Cavan 1–8 – 0–8 Monaghan
Attendance: 30,000

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Meath 1–6 – 0–7 Roscommon
Attendance: 41,231

Cavan 0–10 – 0–3 Cork
N. Duggan (0-1), D. Kellaher (0-1) & T. Moriaty (2-1).

Cavan 2–4 – 1–7 Meath
Attendance: 64,200

Cavan 0–9 – 0–5 Meath
Attendance: 62,515

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Fr. O'Hara Park, Charlestown opens in honour of Father Eddie O'Hara.
  • Limerick are dropped from the Munster football championship until 1965.
  • Smallest Connacht championship until 2020.
  • The All Ireland semi-final between Meath and Roscommon was the first meeting between the teams.
  • The All-Ireland final ends in a draw and goes to a replay for the first time since 1946.

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