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1916 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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1916 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
Event1916 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date17 December 1916
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
Attendance3,000
1915
1917

The 1916 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 29th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1916 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

The Croke Park pitch frosted over overnight, but was pronounced playable. Mayo were the first Connacht team to reach the final, but Wexford won by a wide margin. The low attendance was due to the lack of special trains under the martial law introduced after the Easter Rising.[1]

It was the second of four All-Ireland football titles won by Wexford in the 1910s.[2]

References

  1. ^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  2. ^ "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.