1928 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1928 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamKildare (4th win)
CaptainBill 'Squires' Gannon
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamCavan
Provincial Champions
MunsterCork
LeinsterKildare
UlsterCavan
ConnachtSligo
Championship statistics
← 1927
1929 →

The 1928 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 42nd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kildare were the winners.[1][2][3]

Results[edit]

Connacht Senior Football Championship[edit]

Leitrim1-0 – 1-0Galway
Leitrim0-7 – 0-3Galway
Mayo1-5 – 0-3Roscommon
J Forde (1-0).
Sligo1-5 – 0-2Leitrim
Attendance: 5,000
Sligo1-4 – 0-6Mayo
JJ Walsh (0-2), G Courell (0-3, two frees).
Attendance: 9,000

Leinster Senior Football Championship[edit]

Quarter-Final
Wexford7-7 – 3-4Kilkenny
Quarter-Final
Longford3-4 – 0-11Meath
Quarter-Final
Dublin0-5 – 0-3Louth
Quarter-Final
Kildare0-4 – 1-0Laois
A. O'Neill, J. Loughlin, F. Malone, T. Keogh 0-1 each Report J. Brown 1-0
Referee: S. J. Donnelly (Dublin)
Semi-Final
Kildare3-6 – 0-2Longford
P Ryan 2-1; P Pringle 1-0; P. Martin 0-2; J Curtis, P Loughlin, Keogh 0-1 each Report M. Deane 0-2
Referee: J. Byrne (Louth)
Semi-Final
Dublin3-3 – 0-4Wexford
Referee: T. Burke (Louth)
Final
Kildare0-10 – 1-6Dublin
Paul Doyle (0-2f) and Paddy Loughlin 0-3 each, Joe Curtis 0-2, Paddy Martin and Tom Keogh 0-1 each Report M Durnin 1-0, Joe Synott 0-3, Jack Reilly, Joe Stynes, Mick O'Brien 0-1 each
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Jim Byrne (Wexford)

Munster Senior Football Championship[edit]

Quarter-Final
Kerry3-4 – 0-5Clare
J O'Connor 1-0, P Russell 0-3, P Whitty 0-1
Semi-Final
Tipperary1-7 – 2-3Kerry
J J Sheehy 1-2, N Sweeney 1-0, P Russell 0-1
Referee: W. Walsh (Waterford)
Final
Cork4-3 – 0-4Tipperary
Referee: P. Whelan (W)

Ulster Senior Football Championship[edit]

Tyrone7-3 – 2-3Derry
Monaghan3-5 – 1-3Down
Armagh6-3 – 1-7Fermanagh
Cavan1-5 – 0-2Antrim
Armagh0-4 – 0-1Monaghan
Cavan4-3 – 0-4Tyrone
Cavan2-6 – 1-4Armagh
Attendance: 6,000

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship[edit]

Cavan2-5 – 0-4Sligo
Kildare3-7 – 0-2Cork
W.Mangan 3-0, P.Doyle 0-5, J.Curtis, P.Loughlin 0-1.
Referee: J. Shevlin (Roscommon)
Main article: 1928 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Kildare2-6 – 2-5Cavan
P.Doyle 0-5, W.Mangan, P.Loughlin 1-0, T.Keogh 0-1.
Attendance: 24,700
Referee: Tom Burke (Louth)

Championship statistics[edit]

Miscellaneous[edit]

  • Cork win the Munster title for the first time since 1916.
  • Sligo win the Connacht title for the first time ever.
  • Kildare are All Ireland champions for the second year in a row.

Roll of Honour[edit]

  • Dublin - 14 (1923)
  • Kerry - 7 (1926)
  • Wexford - 5 (1918)
  • Kildare - 4 (1928)
  • Tipperary - 4 (1920)
  • Limerick - 2 (1896)
  • Cork - 2 (1911)
  • Louth - 2 (1912)
  • Galway - 1 (1925)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Football Results 1911 - 1940 | the Official Website of the GAA". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 8 July 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links[edit]

Beaten By A Point (1928) on YouTube, a British Pathé newsreel of the Kildare-Dublin Leinster final

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