1972 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship

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1972 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship
All Ireland Champions
Winners Cork (5th win)
Captain D. Kehilly
All Ireland Runners-up
Runners-up Hertfordshire
CaptainP. Murphy
Provincial Champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Offaly
Ulster Antrim
Connacht Galway
1971
1973

The 1972 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship was the 51st staging of the All-Ireland Junior Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1912.

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London entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were beaten in the British Junior Championship. [1]

The All-Ireland final was played on 1 October 1972 at the Athletic Grounds in Cork, between Cork and Hertfordshire, in what was their first ever meeting in the final. Cork won the match by 5–16 to 0–03 to claim their fifth championship title overall and a first tile in eight years. [2] [3]

Results

All-Ireland Junior Football Championship

All-Ireland semi-finals

31 July 1972Semi-final Galway 1-13 - 3-04 Antrim Dunlo GAA Grounds
6 August 1972Semi-final Offaly 0-08 - 1-11 Cork O'Connor Park

All-Ireland home final

10 September 1972Home final Cork 1-10 - 0-08 Galway Gaelic Grounds

All-Ireland final

1 October 1972Final Cork 5-16 - 0-03 Hertfordshire Cork Athletic Grounds

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References

  1. "Holder of two All-Ireland junior football medals with London". The Meath Chronicle. 31 March 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
  2. "Cork profile". Hogan Stand website. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
  3. "Junior football". Munster GAA website. 29 May 2009. Retrieved 18 August 2021.