1968 All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship

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1968 All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship
All Ireland Champions
Winners Warwickshire (1st win)
All Ireland Runners-up
Runners-up Kerry
Captain Bill McCarthy
Provincial Champions
MunsterNot Played
Leinster Louth
Ulster Antrim
Connacht Sligo
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The 1968 All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship was the 47th staging of the All-Ireland Junior Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1912. [1] [2]

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Wicklow were the defending champions. [3]

The All-Ireland final was played on 6 October 1968 at Glebe Park in Birmingham, between Warwickshire and Kerry, in what was their first ever meeting in the final. Warwickshire won the match by 1–14 to 1–09 to claim their first ever All-Ireland title. [4]

All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship

All-Ireland semi-finals

25 August 1968Semi-final Kerry 4-08 - 3-06 Antrim Austin Stack Park
P O'Sullivan 2-0, B McCarthy 1-3, J O'Sullivan 1-1, B Lawlor 0-2, C Flaherty 0-2.M McKerney 2-1, S Shannon 1-0, A Hamill 0-3, S McMullan 0-2.
25 August 1968Semi-final Sligo 3-09 - 2-08 Louth Markievicz Park
C O'Neill 1-2, W Murphy 1-2, T McMorrow 1-0, T Flannery 0-2, T Hayden 0-1, M Burke 0-1.P O'Brien 2-2, J Lane 0-3, D Murray 0-2, F Cooney 0-1.

All-Ireland home final

8 September 1968Home final Kerry 6-09 - 5-09 Sligo Ballinasloe Grounds
B McCarthy 2-5, J Conlon 2-0, B Twomey 1-1, J O'Sullivan 1-1, C Flaherty 0-1, T O'Sullivan 0-1.T McNamara 2-4, T Flannery 2-0, S Armstrong 1-0, W Murphy 0-3, J McDonagh 0-1, N Rooney 0-1.

All-Ireland final

6 October 1968Final Warwickshire 1-14 - 1-09 Kerry Glebe Park
C Crowe 0-12, C Danaher 1-0, W Hogan 0-1, D Dunne 0-1.N Power 1-0, C Flaherty 0-3, P O'Sullivan 0-2, B Twomey 0-2, C O'Sullivan 0-1, B McCarthy 0-1.

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References

  1. ↑ "Junior hurling". Munster GAA website. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
  2. ↑ "Cork profile". Hogan Stand website. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "Junior All-Ireland winners of 1967 to be honoured". Irish Independent. 28 June 2007. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  4. ↑ "Treasures: the year Warwickshire won the All-Ireland junior hurling final". Irish Independent. 10 March 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
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