1961–62 National Football League (Ireland)

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1961–62 National Football League
League details
DatesOctober 1961 – 13 May 1962
League champions
Winners Down (2nd win)
Captain Paddy Doherty
League runners-up
Runners-up Dublin
Captain Kevin Heffernan

The 1961–62 National Football League was the 31st staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.

National Football League (Ireland) annual Gaelic football competition between the senior county teams of Ireland plus London

The National Football League is an annual Gaelic football competition between the senior county teams of Ireland plus London. Sponsored by Allianz, it is officially known as the Allianz National Football League.

Gaelic football Irish team sport, form of football derived from traditional Irish ball games

Gaelic football, commonly referred to as football or Gaelic, is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kicking or punching the ball into the other team's goals or between two upright posts above the goals and over a crossbar 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) above the ground.

A Gaelic Athletic Association county is a geographic region within the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), controlled by a county board and originally based on the 32 counties of Ireland as they were in 1884. While the administrative geography of Ireland has since changed, with several new counties created and the six that make up Northern Ireland superseded by 11 local government districts, the GAA counties have remained largely unchanged.

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The final featured on the Amharc Éireann newsreel. Seán O'Neill scored a late penalty to win the game. [1] [2] [3]

Seán O'Neill is a former Irish sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club John Mitchel and was a member of the Down senior inter-county team from the 1950s until the 1960s. O'Neill is one of only four Down players to win three All-Ireland titles.

Format

Results

Finals

Down 2-5 – 1-7 Dublin
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 56,515
Referee: M McArdle (Louth) [4]

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References

  1. ↑ GAA Final Teams
  2. ↑ Photo Archive
  3. ↑ Amharc Éireann
  4. ↑ "For The Record, A History of the National Football and Hurling League Finals", Tom Morrison, Collins Press, 2002, ISBN   9781903464151
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