1894 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1894 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Dublin (3rd win)
Provincial Champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Dublin
Championship statistics
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The 1894 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the eighth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin were the champions in the first replayed final.[1][2][3]

Results

Leinster

Meath 1-6 – 0-0 Kilkenny
Dublin 1-10 – 0-0 Wexford
Dublin 0-4 – 0-4 Meath
Dublin 0-2 – 0-2 Meath
Dublin 1-8 – 1-2 Meath

Munster

Tipperary 0-2 – 0-4 Kerry
Cork Park[4]

Tipperary objected - this was upheld.[5]

Tipperary w/o – scr. Kerry
Cork 3-5 – 0-0 Limerick
Cork Park[6]
Cork 0-6 – 0-2 Tipperary
Referee: Mr Trownsell, Limerick

Tipperary objected - this was upheld.

Cork 2-4 – 0-1 Tipperary

All-Ireland Final

Dublin 1-1 – 0-6 Cork
Referee: R.T. Blake (Meath)
Dublin 0-5 – 1-2 Cork
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: R.T. Blake (Meath)

Note that, at the time, a goal was worth five points, so the first game was a draw: 6 points each. Cork led the replay 7 points to 5 when the Dublin team walked off the field after Cork supporters assaulted their players. As Cork were deemed responsible for the incident, Dublin were awarded the title.

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Dublin awarded the points to become All Ireland Champions.

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
  4. ↑ "The All-Ireland Footballing and Hurling Championships", The Kerry Weekly Reporter, 25 August 1894, p. 8
  5. ↑ http://history.launerangers.ie/?p=1064
  6. ↑ "Hurling and Football", The Freemans Journal, 17 September 1894, p. 7
  7. ↑ "G.A.A.: The Munster Championships", The Cork Examiner, 3 December 1894, p. 3
  8. ↑ "Gaelic Inter-County Championship", The Cork Examiner, 4 March 1895, p. 8
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