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Event | 1960 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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Date | 25 September 1960 | ||||||
Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
Referee | John Dowling (Offaly) [1] | ||||||
Attendance | 87,768 | ||||||
The 1960 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 73rd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1960 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
The game turned in Down's favour 11 minutes into the second half with Dan McCartan scoring a goal directly from a line ball; two minutes later Paddy Doherty scored a penalty. [2]
This was Down's first ever appearance in an All-Ireland final, and it brought with it their first win. It was the first of three All-Ireland football titles won by Down in the 1960s, which made them joint "team of the decade" with Galway who also won three. [3] Down won their next four All-Ireland football finals, with this run only broken in their sixth appearance, by a one-point defeat to Cork in 2010. [4] [5] [6]
This was also the first championship meeting of Down and Kerry. [7]
Down returned to that stage of the competition for the fiftieth anniversary, the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final. [8]
Down | 2–10 – 0–8 | Kerry |
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P Doherty 1–5, J McCartan 1–1, T Hadden 0–2, J Lennon & S O'Neill 0–1 | T Lyne 0–4, M O'Connell 0–2, JD O'Connor & S Murphy 0–1 |
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