1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

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.

1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
Event1918 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Wexford Tipperary
0-5 0-4
Date16 February 1919
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
Attendance12,000

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.[1] The match, played on 16 February 1919, had been postponed from the previous autumn due to the spread of the flu.[2]

It was the fourth of four All-Ireland football titles won by Wexford in the 1910s.[3] They have not since appeared in an All-Ireland football final.

References
  1. High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  2. https://www.rte.ie/sport/other-sport/2020/0313/1122159-how-the-sporting-world-reacted-to-the-spanish-flu/
  3. "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.

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