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1937 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

1937 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

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The 1937 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 51st staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1887. The championship began on 16 May 1937 and ended on 5 September 1937.

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Limerick entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were defeated in the provincial stages. Tipperary won the title following a 3–11 to 0–3 victory over Kilkenny in the final.[1]

Format

The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual. All games were played on a knockout basis whereby once a team lost they were eliminated from the championship. The format for the All-Ireland series of games ran as follows:

  • The winners of the Munster Championship advanced directly to the All-Ireland final.
  • The winners of the Leinster Championship advanced directly to a lone All-Ireland semi-final.
  • Galway, a team who faced no competition in the Connacht Championship, entered the championship at the All-Ireland semi-final stage where they played the Leinster champions.
  • There were no representatives from the Ulster Championship in the All-Ireland series.

Results

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

16 May 1937 First round Westmeath 4-2 – 1-7 Meath Cusack Park
23 May 1937 First round Wexford 2-8 – 6-2 Offaly Nowlan Park
6 June 1937 Quarter-final Westmeath 5-3 – 2-3 Offaly Cusack Park
20 June 1937 Semi-final Westmeath 7-7 – 5-3 Laois Cusack Park
27 June 1937 Semi-final Kilkenny 5-5 – 3-4 Dublin O'Connor Park
18 July 1937 Final Kilkenny 5-3 – 2-4 Westmeath O'Moore Park
M White 3-1, L Duggan 2-0, J Phelan 0-1, L Meagher 0-1. C Boland 2-0, S Skehal 0-1, E Moynihan 0-1, T McGrath 0-1, T Morgan 0-1.

Munster Senior Hurling Championship

First round

9 May 1937 First round Kerry 3-02 – 9-05 Waterford Austin Stack Park, Tralee
Greene 3-2, D Goode 3-1, W Barron 1-0, Halloran 1-0. Referee: W Hough (Limerick)
23 May 1937 First round Limerick 5-05 – 4-01 Clare Gaelic Grounds, Limerick
P McMahon 4-0, D Clohessy 1-1, J Hickey 0-1, D Given 0-2, T Ryan 0-1. M Hennessy 1-1, P Loughnane 1-0, R Burns 1-0, M Halloran 1-0.

Semi-finals

6 June 1937 Semi-final Tipperary 4-03 – 3-05 Cork Thurles Sportsfield, Thurles
D Murphy 2-0, J Coffey 1-1, P Ryan 1-1, J Cooney 0-1. T Kelly 1-0, J Barrett 1-0, P Reid 1-0, J Lynch 0-2, F Barry 0-2, D Cogan 0-1. Referee: W Gleeson (Limerick)
4 July 1937 Semi-final Limerick 3-04 – 3-02 Waterford Ned Hall Park, Clonmel
D Clohessy 2-1, J McCarthy 1-0, J Mackey 0-1, M Mackey 0-1, J Roche 0-1, D Goode 1-0, Butler 1-0, C Moylan 1-0, J Keane 0-1, T Greaney 0-1. Referee: J O'Keeffe (Tipperary)

Final

25 July 1937 Final Tipperary 6-03 – 4-03 Limerick Cork Athletic Grounds, Cork
P Ryan 2-1, T Doyle 1-1, T Treacy 1-0, AN Other 1-0, J Coffey 1-0, B O'Donnell 0-1. D Clohessy 2-0, M Mackey 1-1, P McMahon 1-0, T Ryan 0-1, J Mackey 0-1, Attendance: 30,235

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

8 August 1937 Semi-final Kilkenny 0-8 – 0-6 Galway St. Brendan's Park
5 September 1937 Final Tipperary 3-11 – 0-3 Kilkenny FitzGerald Stadium
Attendance: 43,638
Referee: J Flaherty (Offaly)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Westmeath arguably enjoy their best ever season of championship hurling. Three successive victories allowed them to qualify for their very first, and to date their only, Leinster decider.[2]
  • That All-Ireland final was the first to be played outside of Croke Park and, indeed, Dublin for thirty years. A builders' strike delayed the construction of the Cusack Stand in Croke Park meaning an alternative venue had to be found and the new FitzGerald Stadium in Killarney was chosen.[3]

Sources

  • Corry, Eoghan, The GAA Book of Lists (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005).
  • Donegan, Des, The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games (DBA Publications Limited, 2005).

References

  1. [1]
    "All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Roll of Honour". The GAA website. Archived from the original on 5 September 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
  2. [2]
    Flanagan, Paddy (5 May 2009). "Paddy Flanagan recalls some of the highlights". Westmeath Examiner. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
  3. [3]
    O'Connor, Jason (7 September 2007). "The day Killarney hosted the All-Ireland hurling final". The Kerryman. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
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