1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

The 1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 56th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
Event1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Roscommon Cavan
1-6 1-6
Date26 September 1943
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
Attendance68,023
1943 All-Ireland Senior Football Final Replay
Roscommon Cavan
2-7 2-2
Date10 October 1943
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
Attendance47,193

Roscommon defeated Cavan after a replay.

Cavan finished the replay with fourteen men after Joe Stafford was dismissed with fifteen minutes remaining.[1]

References
  1. Kelly, Tom (3 February 2010). "A football life less ordinary". The Anglo-Celt. In 1943 [Mick Higgins] was left-half forward on the team that lost to Roscommon in the replayed All-Ireland final. Cavan had finished that game with fourteen players when Joe Stafford had been ordered off with fifteen minutes left.

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