1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamKerry (16th win)
CaptainPaddy Kennedy
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamRoscommon
CaptainJimmy Murray
Provincial Champions
MunsterKerry
LeinsterLaois
UlsterAntrim
ConnachtRoscommon
Championship statistics
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The 1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 60th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

The Munster Quarter-Final Kerry ended Cork's All Ireland title.

Kerry won their sixteenth title, moving ahead of Dublin in the all-time standings, a position which they have never lost since.[1][2][3]

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Sligo6-10 – 0-6Leitrim
Roscommon0-7 – 0-4Galway
Mayo2-9 – 2-6Sligo
P Carney (0-4), Joe Gilvarry (1-0), S Mellette (0-1), J Kilroy (1-0) & J Mulvey (0-2).
Roscommon1-4 – 0-6Mayo
P Carney (0-2, frees), E Mongey (0-1), P Quinn (0-1) & J Munnelly (0-2).
Referee: P. McKenna (Limerick)

Note: Roscommon’s goal proved to be a controversial one. The goal was scored by Roscommon’s Jimmy Murray and there was some confusion as to whether or not it would be allowed as the umpires failed to signal the score. It was only after Jimmy Murray had raised the green flag himself that the umpires finally signalled the goal. The referee, speaking after the match to the Irish Press match reporter ‘Green Flag’ (an appropriate sobriquet) stated that he had allowed the score because in his opinion the Mayo goalkeeper, Tom Byrne, was behind the line when he saved Murray’s initial goal effort. In the week following the final, Mayo entered a formal objection with the Connacht Council, reportedly about the legality of two of the Roscommon team. Roscommon entered a counter-objection. At a meeting of the Connacht Council on 5/8/1946 at Castlerea, both the objection and counter-objection were withdrawn, the referee’s report was adopted and a replay ordered. (Source: Irish Press reports July, August 1946).

Roscommon1-9 – 1-2Mayo
P Carney (0-1, free), Joe Gilvarry (1-0) & T Acton (0-1).
Referee: H. Vallelly or Alf Murray (Armagh)

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Meath2-11 – 0-8Longford
Cusack Park, Mullingar
Louth2-7 – 0-7Wicklow
Laois1-3 - 0-5Dublin
Seamus Hughes 1-1, Chris Delaney (0-1f) and Paddy Peacock 0-1 each M Killeen 0-2, Matt Fletcher (0-1f), M O'Reilly, N Ryan 0-1 each
Offaly2-6 – 0-4Westmeath
Cusack Park, Mullingar
Kildare2-3 – 2-3Carlow
P.White, R.Martin 1-0, M.Byrne 0-2, P.O'Brien 0-1.
Kildare3-5 – 0-7Carlow
R.Martin 2-1, M.Byrne 1-3, P.White 0-1
Dr. Cullen Park, Carlow
Laois1-7 – 1-5Offaly
Louth1-6 – 0-6Meath
Kildare3-3 – 0-10Wexford
M.Byrne 0-3, W.Geraghty, T.Fox, R.Martin 1-0.
Dr. Cullen Park, Carlow
Laois1-9 – 0-10Louth
Laois0-11 – 1-6Kildare
Tommy Murphy 0-8f, Seamus Hughes, Bill Delaney, Morgan Delaney 0-1 each T. Ryan 1-1, Michael Byrne 0-2 (0-1f), Pat White, John Donnelly, Paddy O'Brien 0-1 each
Attendance: 27,353
Referee: Patsy Ratty (Meath)

Munster Senior Football Championship

Clare3-6 – 4-3Limerick
Miltown Malbay
Clare2-12 – 1-0Limerick
Kerry1-8 – 1-4Cork
Jackie Falvey (0-1), Charlie O'Connor (0-3), Batt Garvey (0-1), Jackie Lyne (0-1) & Paddy Burke (0-2). D. Murray (0-1), J. Lynch (0-1) & J. Cronin (1-0).
Waterford2-4 – 1-5Tipperary
Referee: D. O'Leary ( C )
Kerry1-6 – 0-7Clare
Jackie Falvey (0-1), Willie O'Donnell (0-1), Jackie Lyne (0-1) & Paddy Burke (1-3).
Kerry2-16 – 2-1Waterford
T. O'Connor (0-1), J. Falvey (1-1), Dan Kavanagh (0-1), Tom Gega O'Connor (0-7), J. Lyne (1-2), P. Burke (0-2) & P. Kennedy (0-1).

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Derry4-6 – 0-4Fermanagh
Cavan8-13 – 2-3Tyrone
Donegal4-5 – 1-9Monaghan
St. Tiernach's Park, Clones
Armagh0-13 – 0-4Down
Antrim1-11 – 0-10Derry
Cavan5-8 – 0-3Donegal
Antrim1-12 – 0-6Armagh
Antrim2-8 – 1-7Cavan
St. Tiernach's Park, Clones

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Kerry2-7 – 0-10Antrim
Willie O'Donnell (1-5), Paddy Kennedy (0-1), Batt Garvey (1-0) & Dan Kavanagh (0-1).
Attendance: 30,051
Roscommon3-5 – 2-6Laois
Attendance: 51,275
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1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Kerry2-4 – 1-7Roscommon
Batt Garvey (0-1), Paddy Burke (1-1) & Tom Gega O'Connor (1-2).
Attendance: 75,771
Kerry2-8 – 0-10Roscommon
Paddy Kennedy (0-1), Tom Gega O'Connor (1-4), Batt Garvey (0-2), Paddy Burke (1-0) & Sub Gus Cremin (0-1) for Jackie Falvey.
Attendance: 65,661

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Antrim won the Ulster title for the first time since 1913.
  • The All-Ireland final was originally scheduled for 22 September 1946, but was delayed for two weeks as part of the "Save the Harvest" campaign.
  • The All-Ireland final ends in a draw and goes to a replay for the first time since 1943 as Kerry win their 16th title there are now the county that has now won the most All Ireland finals.
  • Kerry goalkeeper Dan O'Keeffe becomes the first Gaelic Football player to win a 7th All-Ireland winners medal on the field of play, a record which stood until 1986.

References

  1. ^ "Football Results 1941 - 1970 | the Official Website of the GAA". 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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