1888_All-Ireland_Senior_Football_Championship

1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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The 1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was unfinished owing to the American Invasion Tour, an unsuccessful attempt to raise funds for a revival of the Tailteann Games.[1]

Quick Facts All-Ireland Champions, Winning team ...

The 1888 provincial championships had been completed (Tipperary, Kilkenny and Monaghan winning them; no Connacht teams entered) but after the Invasion tour returned, the All-Ireland semi-final and final were not played.[2]

Results

Leinster

More information Dublin, 1–6 – 0–1 ...
Referee: JJ Reilly
More information Kilkenny, 1–3 – 0–0 ...
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: GF Moore
More information Wicklow, 0–2 – 0–1 ...
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: JJ Reilly

Wicklow used illegal players, and the game was stopped by a pitch invasion with ten minutes to go, so a replay was ordered.

More information Wexford, 1–3 – 0–2 ...
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: JP Cox
More information Louth, 2–4 – 0–0 ...
Bryanstown
Referee: JJ O'Reilly
More information Kilkenny, 2-1 – 0–3 ...
Referee: JJ Cullen
More information Wexford, 0–4 – 0–3 ...
Referee: T Harrington
More information Kilkenny, 1–4 – 0–2 ...
New Ross

Munster

More information Tipperary, 0-2 – 0-2 ...
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: T.O'Riordan
More information Clare, 1-3 – 1-0 ...
Referee: J Callinan

Limerick were awarded the game due to Clare playing illegal players.

More information Tipperary, 0-3 – 0-1 ...
Referee: T Harrington
More information Tipperary, w/o – scr. ...

Ulster

More information Monaghan, 0–2 – 0–2 ...

Neither team could field the full 21 players, so 15-a-side was agreed.

More information Monaghan, 0–3 – 0–0 ...
Bryanstown, County Meath

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • No All Ireland series due to US tour.

Sligo and Mayo played a draw in the Connacht final. There is no record of a replay.

References

  1. [1]
    "The 1888 American Invasion Tour". Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
  2. [2]
    "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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