1894 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1894 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Dublin (3rd win)
Provincial Champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Dublin
Championship statistics
1893
1895

The 1894 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the eighth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin were the champions in the first replayed final.[1][2][3]

Results

Leinster

12 August 1894
Dublin w/o – scr. Wexford

14 October 1894
Final
Dublin 0-4 – 0-4 Meath

15 December 1894
Final Replay
Dublin 0-2 – 0-2 Meath

24 February 1895
Final, Second Replay
Dublin 1-8 – 1-2 Meath

Munster

19 August 1894
Semi-Final
Tipperary 0-2 – 0-4 Kerry
Cork Park[5]

Tipperary objected - this was upheld.[6]


30 September 1894
Semi-Final Replay
Tipperary w/o – scr. Kerry

16 September 1894
Semi-Final
Cork 3-5 – 0-0 Limerick
Cork Park[7]

2 December 1894
Final
Cork 0-6 – 0-2 Tipperary
Limerick[8]
Referee: Mr Trownsell, Limerick

Tipperary objected - this was upheld.


3 March 1895
Final Replay
Cork 2-4 – 0-1 Tipperary

All-Ireland Final

24 March 1895
Dublin 1-1 – 0-6 Cork

21 April 1895
Replay
Dublin 0-5 – 1-2 Cork

Note that, at the time, a goal was worth five points, so the first game was a draw: 6 points each. Cork led the replay 7 points to 5 when a dispute arose and the Dublin team walked off the field. Cork refused to play a second replay and Dublin were awarded the title.

References

  1. "Gaelic Athletic Association", Freeman's Journal, 13 August 1894, p. 7
  2. "The All-Ireland Footballing and Hurling Championships", The Kerry Weekly Reporter, 25 August 1894, p. 8
  3. http://history.launerangers.ie/?p=1064
  4. "Hurling and Football", The Freemans Journal, 17 September 1894, p. 7
  5. "G.A.A.: The Munster Championships", The Cork Examiner, 3 December 1894, p. 3
  6. "Gaelic Inter-County Championship", The Cork Examiner, 4 March 1895, p. 8
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