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.
 Wexford, champions | |||||||
| Event | 1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 16 February 1919 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | Pat Dunphy (Laois)[1] | ||||||
| Attendance | 12,000 | ||||||
| Weather | fine but bitterly cold | ||||||
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
edit- ^ O'Connell, Cian (9 December 2016). "1916 All Ireland referees remembered".
- ^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- ^ 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) - ^ "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.