1952 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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1952 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
1932 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final programme.jpg
Event 1952 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date28 September 1952
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Referee Sean Hayes (Tipperary)
Attendance64,200
1951
1952 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final replay
1952 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final R.jpg
Date12 October 1952
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Referee Sean Hayes (Tipperary)
Attendance62,515
1953

The 1952 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 65th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1952 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Contents

Mick Higgins was Cavan's captain on the day. [1]

Match 1

Summary

Cavan equalised with a strange point — Edwin Carolan chased a ball that seemed to go wide, and kicked it across the goalmouth and over the bar. [2] Carolan's equaliser has been described as a "wonder score". [3]

Details

Cavan 2–4 – 1–7 Meath
T Tighe & J J Cassidy (1–0), M Higgins, V Sherlock, P Fitsmons & E Carolan (0–1) eachP Meegan (0–4), P McDermott (1–1), J Reilly & McDonnell (0–1) each
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 64,200
Referee: Sean Hayes (Tipperary)

Match 2

Summary

Mick Higgins's five points won the replay for Cavan, while Peter McDermott (Meath) missed an easy goal chance. [2]

Details

Cavan 0–9 – 0–5 Meath
M Higgins (0–7), T Tighe & J Cusack (0–1) eachP McDermott (0–2), J Reilly, M McDonnell & D Taaffe (0–1) each
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 62,515
Referee: Sean Hayes (Tipperary)

Meath

Played in drawn game
Patsy McGearty
Paddy Connell
Trainer
Patrick Tully

Post-match

Cavan never appeared in an All-Ireland SFC final again. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Cavan GAA legend Mick Higgins dies at the age of 87". BBC Sport . BBC. 28 January 2010. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  2. 1 2 High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  3. Keys, Colm (13 September 2019). "Scoring the equaliser proves great leveller". Irish Independent . Independent News & Media . Retrieved 13 September 2019. Does it present any advantage in an All-Ireland final replay to have scored the equaliser in the drawn game? A look back on the last six drawn football finals shows honours even in that regard... In 1972, Mick O'Dwyer's leveller was in vain when Kerry lost the replay heavily to Offaly while Edwin Carolan's 'wonder score, in the 1952 drawn All-Ireland final for Cavan, paved the way for the last of their five successes in the subsequent replay over Meath.