1899 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1899 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Dublin (6th win)
Provincial Champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Dublin
Championship statistics
1898
1900

The 1899 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 13th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin were the winners, completing the first three-in-a-row.[1][2][3]

Results

Leinster

Offaly lost – won Wexford

Dublin 7-11 – 0-3 Laois

Dublin 1-7 – 0-3 Wexford

Munster

Cork w.o. Clare
Cork Park

Cork w.o. Waterford
Cork Park

Tipperary w.o. Limerick

Cork 0-1 – 2-1
unfinished
Tipperary
Referee: P.J. Hayes, Limerick

The match finished at half time, as the Cork ball had burst, and Tipperary did not have a ball.[4]


Cork 1-2 – 0-1
unfinished
Tipperary
Referee: P.J. Hayes, Limerick

Tipperary refused to take the field for the second half. They asked that their score in the first match be added to their first half score in this match.[5]

Cork 3-11 – 0-1 Tipperary
Referee: J.Wall (W)

All-Ireland Final

Dublin 1-10 – 0-6 Cork
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: L Stanley (Louth)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • It was a first three in a row for Dublin as 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. "G.A.A.: Munster Football Championship", The Cork Examiner, 15 October 1900, p.7
  5. "Munster Championship Final at Limerick"The Cork Examiner, 19 November 1900, p.7
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