1951 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1951 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Mayo (3rd win)
Provincial Champions
Munster Kerry
Leinster Meath
Ulster Antrim
Connacht Mayo
Championship statistics
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The 1951 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 65th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

Mayo won their second All-Ireland in a row.[1][2][3]


The Curse of 51

Mayo have not won an All-Ireland football final since 1951. Legend has it that a priest became incensed when the Mayo team bus returning home from the 1951 final passed by a funeral without showing due respect as they celebrated their All-Ireland win. The priest supposedly put a curse on Mayo, that they would not win another title until all of the team had died.[4] Since the death of Peter Quinn in 2016, only two members of the 1951 team are still living.[5]

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Mayo 3-7 – 1-5 Sligo
Attendance: 7,000
Galway 2-10 – 1-4 Roscommon
Mayo 4-13 – 2-3 Galway
Attendance: 27,000

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Kildare 2-9 – 1-3 Wicklow
Offaly 1-3 – 1-8 Dublin
Referee: W Geraghty
Longford 2-5 – 1-8 Carlow
Longford 1-7 – 1-1 Carlow
Louth 2-9 – 2-6 Kildare
Wexford 2-5 – 2-5 Westmeath
Laois 1-12 – 2-2 Longford
Meath 0-11 – 1-5 Dublin
Wexford 1-10 – 2-5 Westmeath
Laois 1-9 – 2-4 Wexford
Meath 0-6 – 0-6 Louth
Meath 0-7 – 0-6 Louth
Meath 4-9 – 0-3 Laois

Munster Senior Football Championship

Clare 1-7 – 1-5 Tipperary
Referee: J. Brosnan (K)
Cork 2-13 – 2-4 Limerick
Cork 4-9 – 1-1 Clare
Kerry 5-6 – 1-1 Waterford
Kerry 1-6 – 0-4 Cork

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Antrim 2-7 – 2-7 Donegal
Armagh 7-13 – 2-3 Tyrone
Antrim 1-6 – 1-5 Donegal
Cavan 2-9 – 0-7 Down
Derry 1-3 – 0-5 Monaghan
Antrim 1-8 – 0-5 Armagh
Cavan 1-6 – 1-4 Derry
Attendance: 7,000
Antrim 1-7 – 2-3 Cavan
Attendance: 33,000

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Mayo 1-5 – 1-5 Kerry
Attendance: 39,971
Meath 2-6 – 1-7 Antrim
Attendance: 45,888
Mayo 2-4 – 1-5 Kerry
Attendance: 57,345
Mayo 2-8 – 0-9 Meath
Attendance: 78,201

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • In fact the Leinster football championship saw a triple of draws and replays they were in the following games as we know,

- Preliminary Round, Longford vs Carlow. - Quarter-Final, Wexford vs Westmeath. - Semi-Final, Meath vs Louth.

  • The All Ireland semi-final between Meath and Antrim was their first championship meeting.
  • Mayo are All Ireland Champions for 2 in a row and Connacht Champions for 4 in a row.

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
  4. ↑ Fennessy, Paul (13 September 2013). "Ever heard the story about the priest who put a lifelong curse on the Mayo football team in 1951?". The 42. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  5. ↑ O'Toole, Fintan (1 February 2016). "One of Mayo's 1950 and 1951 All-Ireland winners has died". The 42. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
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