1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
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1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
)Event | 1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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Date | 26 September 1943 | ||||||
Venue | 1942 |
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Date | 10 October 1943 | ||||||
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Venue | 1944 → |
The 1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 56th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Roscommon defeated Cavan after a replay to win their first title.[1]
Cavan finished the replay with fourteen men after Joe Stafford was dismissed with fifteen minutes remaining.[2]
References
- ^ "The story of the 1943 All-Ireland football rescued from a fire". RTE Sport. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ Kelly, Tom (3 February 2010). "A football life less ordinary". The Anglo-Celt. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011.
In 1943 [Mick Higgins] was left-half forward on the team that lost to Roscommon in the replayed All-Ireland final. Cavan had finished that game with fourteen players when Joe Stafford had been ordered off with fifteen minutes left.