1952 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1952 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Cavan (5th win)
Captain Mick Higgins
Provincial Champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Meath
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Roscommon
Championship statistics
← 1951
1953 →

The 1952 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 66th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

Limerick play in their last Munster championship game until 1965.

Cavan won their fifth, and so far last, All-Ireland title.[1][2][3]

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Mayo 0–9 – 0–6 Sligo
Attendance: 10,000
Roscommon 1–6 – 1–5 Galway
St. Coman's Park, Roscommon
Roscommon 3–4 – 0–6 Mayo

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Longford 3–8 – 0–5 Kildare
Offaly 0–8 – 1–1 Westmeath
Referee: P Russell
Carlow 2–8 – 1–7 Wicklow
Meath 2–7 – 2–5 Dublin
Louth 0–9 – 1–2 Wexford
Offaly 0–7 – 0–9 Longford
Referee: P Woods
Louth 3–11 – 0–4 Carlow
Attendance: 25,000
Meath 1–9 – 0–9 Longford
Meath 1–6 – 0–8 Louth
Attendance: 44,000

Munster Senior Football Championship

Waterford 1–3 – 0–5 Clare
Tipperary 0–9 – 1–4 Limerick
Referee: A. Scannell ( C )
Cork 1–7 – 0–5 Tipperary
Referee: P. J. Ryan (L)
Kerry 0–14 – 1–7 Waterford
Cork 0–11 – 0–2 Kerry

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Cavan 2–10 – 1–3 Down
Armagh 1–8 – 1–6 Tyrone
Monaghan 2–12 – 0–12 Derry
Antrim 1–7 – 2–3 Donegal
Attendance: 5,000
Monaghan 1–8 – 1–5 Armagh
Attendance: 8,000
Cavan 3–6 – 2–6 Antrim
Cavan 1–8 – 0–8 Monaghan
Attendance: 30,000

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Meath 1–6 – 0–7 Roscommon
Attendance: 41,231
Cavan 0–10 – 0–3 Cork
Cavan 2–4 – 1–7 Meath
Attendance: 64,200
Cavan 0–9 – 0–5 Meath
Attendance: 62,515

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Fr. O'Hara Park, Charlestown opens in honour of Father Eddie O'Hara.
  • Limerick are dropped from the Munster football championship until 1965.
  • The All Ireland semi-final between Meath and Roscommon was the first meeting between the teams.
  • The All-Ireland final ends in a draw and goes to a replay for the first time since 1946.

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
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