1957 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1957 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Louth (3rd win)
Captain Dermot O'Brien
Manager Jim Quigley
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team Cork
Captain Nealie Duggan
Provincial Champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Louth
Ulster Tyrone
Connacht Galway
Championship statistics
1956
1958

The 1957 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 71st staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

Contents

Cork ended Galway's spell an All Ireland champions by just a point in the All Ireland semi-final.

Louth won their third, and so-far last, title. [1] [2] [3]

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Roscommon 0-7 – 0-6 Mayo
M McLoughlin (0-2), PJ Downey (0-2), J O’Connell (0-1). Sub: M Stewart (0-1)
St. Coman's Park, Roscommon
Attendance: 7,560

Sligo 2-1 – 1-8 Leitrim

Galway 0-13 – 0-7 Roscommon

Connacht Final

Galway 4-8 – 0-4 Leitrim
Attendance: 13,000

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Longford 3-4 – 2-7 Westmeath

Longford 1-10 – 0-6 Westmeath

Louth 3-6 – 0-4 Carlow

Wicklow 3-6 – 1-6 Laois

Kildare 2-10 – 1-3 Offaly
P.Loughlin 1-2, S.Harrison 0-4, S.Aldridge 0-3, P.Wright 1-0, E.Hogan 0-1
O'Moore Park, Portlaoise
Attendance: 12000
Referee: E Moules (Wicklow)

Wicklow 3-7 – 1-11 Meath

Louth 1-12 – 0-9 Wexford

Dublin 2-10 – 1-4 Longford

Louth 5-8 – 1-9 Kildare
S.Harrison 1-7, E.Hogan, M.Bohane 0-1

Dublin 3-9 – 0-9 Wicklow

Leinster Final

Colours of Louth.svg Louth 2-9 – 1-7 Colours of Dublin.svg Dublin
Jim McDonnell 2-2, Kevin Beahan 0-4f, Dermot O'Brien, Sean Cunningham, Frank Lynch 0-1 eachDes Ferguson 1-1, Ollie Freaney 0-4f, Paddy Downey and Cathal O'Leary 0-1 each
Attendance: 30,234
Referee: Eamon Moulds (Wicklow)
GK1 Seán Óg Flood (Dundalk Young Irelands)
RCB2 Ollie Reilly (Hunterstown Rovers)
FB3 Tom Conlon (Stabannon Parnells)
LCB4Jim Meehan (Naomh Mhuire)
RHB5Peadar Smith (Oliver Plunketts)
CHB6Jim McArdle (Roche Emmets)
LHB7 Stephen White (Dundalk Young Irelands)
MF8 Kevin Beahan (Seán McDermotts, Dublin)
MF9 Dan O'Neill (St Dominic's)
RHF10Séamus O'Donnell (Cooley Kickhams)
CHF11 Dermot O'Brien (St Mary's)
LHF12 Alfie Monk (Naomh Mhuire)
RCF13Seán Cunningham (Dundalk Young Irelands)
FF14 Jimmy McDonnell (Darver Volunteers)
LCF15Jim Roe (St Mary's)
Substitutes:
16Barney McCoy (St Mary's) for Reilly
17 Frank Lynch (Geraldines) for Monk
GK1 Paddy O'Flaherty (Beann Éadair)
RCB2 Denis Mahony (St Vincents)
FB3 Jimmy Lavin (St Vincents)
LCB4Tony Gillen (Clanna Gael)
RHB5Maurice Whelan (St Vincents)
CHB6 Marcus Wilson (St Vincents)
LHB7 Lar Foley (St Vincents)
MF8 Jim Crowley (St Vincents)
MF9Paddy Downey (St Brigid's)
RHF10 Des Ferguson (St Vincents)
CHF11 Ollie Freaney (St Vincents)
LHF12Cathal O'Leary (St Vincents)
RCF13Roger Conroy (Parnells)
FF14 Kevin Heffernan (St Vincents)
LCF15 Johnny Boyle (Air Corps)
Substitutes:
16Nicky Maher (St Vincents) for Foley
17Paddy Barrett (Ballyboughal) for Conroy
18Paddy Heron (St Vincents) for Freaney

Munster Senior Football Championship

Tipperary 2-9 – 4-5 Clare
Gaelic Grounds, Limerick
Referee: J. Kerins (K)

Waterford 2-5 – 0-10 Kerry
M. O'Connell (0-1), P. Sheehy (0-1), N. Fitzgerald (0-3), T. Lyne (0-2), P. Fitzgerald (0-1), T. Collins (0-1) & D. McAuliffe (0-1).

Cork 1-7 – 0-3 Clare
J. Creedon (0-1), N. Duggan (0-1), T. Furlong (1-1), T. Ryan (0-1), R. Nutty (1-0) & D. Kelleher (0-3).

Munster Final

Cork 0-16 – 1-2 Waterford
N. Fitzgerald (0-3), T. Furlong (0-2), E. Goulding (0-5), N. Duggan (0-5) & Sub T. Ryan (0-1).

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Derry 4-14 – 0-8 Antrim

Donegal 3-2 – 0-6 Down

Cavan 1-12 – 1-5 Monaghan

Tyrone 2-9 – 3-5 Armagh

Derry 1-10 – 1-9 Cavan

Tyrone 3-5 – 2-3 Donegal

Ulster Final

Tyrone 1-9 – 0-10 Derry
Attendance: 36,500

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Cork 2-4 – 0-9 Galway
E. Ryan (0-2), N. Fitzgerald (1-0), E. Goulding (0-1), T. Furlong (1-0) & N. Duggan (0-2).
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 57,066

Louth 0-13 – 0-7 Tyrone
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 30,723

All Ireland Final

Louth 1-9 – 1-7 Cork
Seán Cunningham (1-1), Kevin Beahan (0-3), Jim Roe (0-3), Séamus O'Donnell (0-1), Dan O'Neill (0-1)N. Fitzgerald (0-3), T. Furlong (1-1), N. Duggan (0-1) & D. Kelleher (0-3)
Attendance: 72,732
Referee: P Geraghty (Galway)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

References

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