1912 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship

1912 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship

All Ireland Champions
Winners	Tipperary (1st win)
Captain	Ned O'Shea
All Ireland Runners-up
Runners-up	Louth
Captain	Tom Burke
Provincial Champions
Munster	Tipperary
Leinster	Louth
Ulster	Not Played
Connacht	Not Played
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The 1912 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship was the first staging of the All-Ireland Junior Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's second tier Gaelic football championship.

The All-Ireland final was played on 23 February 1913 at Jones's Road in Dublin, between Tipperary and Louth, in what was their first ever championship meeting. Tipperary recovered from a half-time deficit of five points to win the match by 1–04 to 1–03 and claim their first championship title.

Results

All-Ireland Junior Football Championship

Leinster final

Louth v Carlow

27 October 1912	Louth	3-01 - 2-02	Carlow	Jones's Road
	Harlin, Heaney, Mulholland (1-0 each), T. Burke (0-1)			Referee: M.F. Crowe (Dublin)

1 Michael Carolan (Funshog) (gk) 2 John J. Kirwan (Geraldines) 3 James McCann (Ardee St Mochta's) 4 Stephen Reilly (Ardee St Mochta's) 5 Pat Kirk (Dundalk Rangers) 6 Bernard Lennon (Dundalk Young Irelands) 7 Edward McCormack (Drogheda Stars) 8 Pat McGough (Dundalk Rangers) 9 Joe Burke (Dundalk Rangers) 10 Pete Mulholland (Dundalk Rangers) 11 Tom Kelly (Boyne Rovers) 12 Pete McLoughlin (Ardee St Mochta's) 13 Jack Heaney (Ardee St Mochta's) 14 Pat Harlin (Ardee St Mochta's) 15 Tom Burke (Drogheda Stars) (c) 16 Pat McCann (Drogheda Stars) 17 Willie Wylie (Dundalk Young Irelands)

1 P. May (gk) 2 J. Millet 3 W. Kennedy 4 M. Leo 5 W. Quinn 6 M. Coady 7 J. Redmonds 8 J. Murphy 9 A. Murphy 10 W. Murphy 11 P. Haughney 12 C. Haughney 13 M. Hogan 14 W. Cooney 15 M. Lawler 16 W. Mulhall 17 L. Shaw

Munster final

Tipperary v Cork

Tipperary

0-05 - 0-02

Cork

All-Ireland final

Tipperary v Louth

23 February 1913 Final	Tipperary	1-04 - 1-03	Louth	Jones's Road
				Referee: Tom Irwin (Cork)

1 Lar Gorman (gk) 2 Pat Dwyer 3 Ned O'Shea (c) 4 William Ryan 5 Jack Hayes 6 Tom Rogers 7 Ned Daly 8 Mick O'Meara 9 Ned Egan 10 Paddy Egan 11 Vincent Vaughan 12 Frank O'Brien 13 Jack Ryan 14 Dan Hughes 15 Jim Quinn 16 Dermot Connors 17 Mick Devitt

1 Michael Carolan (Funshog) (gk) 2 Michael Tenanty (Drogheda Stars) 3 James McCann (Ardee St Mochta's) 4 Stephen Reilly (Ardee St Mochta's) 5 Pat Kirk (Dundalk Rangers) 6 John Norton (Dundalk Rangers) 7 Edward McCormack (Drogheda Stars) 8 Pete McLoughlin (Ardee St Mochta's) 9 Pete Mulholland (Dundalk Rangers) 10 Pat McGough (Dundalk Rangers) 11 George Matthews (Drogheda Stars) 12 Tom Burke (Drogheda Stars) (c) 13 Joe Burke (Dundalk Rangers) 14 Willie Wylie (Dundalk Young Irelands) 15 Tom Harlin (Ardee St Mochta's) 16 Jack Heaney (Ardee St Mochta's) 17 Bernard Lennon (Dundalk Young Irelands)