1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

The 1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 31st All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Wexford, champions
Event1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date16 February 1919
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
RefereePat Dunphy (Laois)[1]
Attendance12,000
Weatherfine but bitterly cold
1917
1919

Tipperary's preparations were severely hampered by military regulations following the Soloheadbeg ambush, not to mention the death of Davey Tobin by Spanish flu. A disallowed goal and a last-minute miss by Gus McCarthy were enough to allow Wexford to complete a four-in-a-row.[2] The match, played on 16 February 1919, had been postponed from the previous autumn due to the spread of the flu.[3]

It was the fourth of four All-Ireland football titles won by Wexford in the 1910s.[4] They have not since appeared in an All-Ireland football final.

References

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  1. ^ O'Connell, Cian (9 December 2016). "1916 All Ireland referees remembered".
  2. ^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  3. ^ Pyne, Anthony (14 March 2020). "How the sporting world reacted to the Spanish Flu" – via www.rte.ie. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.