1912 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship Explained

Type:Football
Year:1912
Munster:Tipperary
Leinster:Louth
Team:Tipperary
Titles:1st
Captain:Ned O'Shea
Team2:Louth
Captain2:Tom Burke
Next:1913

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.[1] Tipperary won the match by 1–04 to 1–03 to claim their first championship title.[2] [3]

Results

All-Ireland Junior Football Championship

All-Ireland final

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Louth Legends pre-1950. 6 December 2002. Irish Independent. 18 August 2021.
  2. Web site: Events of 100 Years Ago. 24 December 2012. Tipperary Live. 18 August 2021.
  3. Web site: Who fears to speak of '98? The story of the Tipperary junior football team, Munster and All-Ireland champions 1998. 26 April 2018. Friends of Tipperary football website. 18 August 2021.