1967 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

1967 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
Event 1967 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date 24 September 1967
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance 70,343

The 1967 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the eightieth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1967 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Cork led 0-3 to 0-1 at half-time, but Terry Kearns hit a goal six minutes into the second half and Meath went on to win. Cork's attempt at a late equalising goal was scuppered when Con O'Sullivan's short free was judged to be too short.[1]

Peter Darby captained Meath to victory.[2]

Meath would go on to tour Australia for some early examples of international rules football. Meath played five Australian state sides and won the lot, producing a combined score of 26-43 to 3-29.[3]

References

  1. High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  2. Mooney, Brendan (1999). "O’Reilly joins list of great Meath wing backs". Irish Examiner.
  3. "History of International Rules Football". Retrieved 18 April 2008.