1894 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1894 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamDublin (3rd win)
Provincial Champions
MunsterCork
LeinsterDublin
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

Dublinw/o – scr.Wexford

Dublin0-4 – 0-4Meath

Dublin0-2 – 0-2Meath

Dublin1-8 – 1-2Meath

Munster

Tipperary0-2 – 0-4Kerry

Tipperary objected - this was upheld.[6]


Tipperaryw/o – scr.Kerry

Cork3-5 – 0-0Limerick

Cork0-6 – 0-2Tipperary
Referee: Mr Trownsell, Limerick

Tipperary objected - this was upheld.


Cork2-4 – 0-1Tipperary

All-Ireland Final

Dublin1-1 – 0-6Cork

Dublin0-5 – 1-2Cork

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