1951 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1951 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 65th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

1951 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamMayo (3rd win)
Provincial Champions
MunsterKerry
LeinsterMeath
UlsterAntrim
ConnachtMayo
Championship statistics
← 1950
1952 →

Mayo won their second All-Ireland in a row.[1][2][3]

The Curse of 51

Mayo have not won an All-Ireland football final since 1951. Legend has it that a priest became incensed when the Mayo team bus returning home from the 1951 final passed by a funeral without showing due respect as they celebrated their All-Ireland win. The priest supposedly put a curse on Mayo, that they would not win another title until all of the team had died.[4] Since the death of Pádraig Carney in 2019, only Paddy Prendergast of the 1951 team is still living.[5][6]

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship
Mayo3-7 – 1-5Sligo
Attendance: 7,000
Galway2-10 – 1-4Roscommon
Mayo4-13 – 2-3Galway
Attendance: 27,000

Leinster Senior Football Championship
Kildare2-9 – 1-3Wicklow
Offaly1-3 – 1-8Dublin
Referee: W Geraghty
Longford2-5 – 1-8Carlow
Longford1-7 – 1-1Carlow
Louth2-9 – 2-6Kildare
Wexford2-5 – 2-5Westmeath
Laois1-12 – 2-2Longford
Meath0-11 – 1-5Dublin
Wexford1-10 – 2-5Westmeath
Laois1-9 – 2-4Wexford
Meath0-6 – 0-6Louth
Meath0-7 – 0-6Louth
Meath4-9 – 0-3Laois

Munster Senior Football Championship
Clare1-7 – 1-5Tipperary
Referee: J. Brosnan (K)
Cork2-13 – 2-4Limerick
Cork4-9 – 1-1Clare
Kerry5-6 – 1-1Waterford
Kerry1-6 – 0-4Cork

Ulster Senior Football Championship
Antrim2-7 – 2-7Donegal
Armagh7-13 – 2-3Tyrone
Antrim1-6 – 1-5Donegal
Cavan2-9 – 0-7Down
Derry1-3 – 0-5Monaghan
Antrim1-8 – 0-5Armagh
Cavan1-6 – 1-4Derry
Attendance: 7,000
Antrim1-7 – 2-3Cavan
Attendance: 33,000

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Mayo1-5 – 1-5Kerry
Attendance: 39,971
Meath2-6 – 1-7Antrim
Attendance: 45,888
Mayo2-4 – 1-5Kerry
Attendance: 57,345
Main article: 1951 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Mayo2-8 – 0-9Meath
Attendance: 78,201

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous
  • In fact the Leinster football championship saw a triple of draws and replays they were in the following games as we know,

- Preliminary Round, Longford vs Carlow. - Quarter-Final, Wexford vs Westmeath. - Semi-Final, Meath vs Louth.

  • The All Ireland semi-final between Meath and Antrim was their first championship meeting.
  • Mayo are All Ireland Champions for 2 in a row and Connacht Champions for 4 in a row.

References
  1. "Football Results 1941 - 1970". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
  2. "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
  3. "Leinster Senior Football Champions - Roll of Honours" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
  4. Fennessy, Paul (13 September 2013). "Ever heard the story about the priest who put a lifelong curse on the Mayo football team in 1951?". The 42. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  5. O'Toole, Fintan (1 February 2016). "One of Mayo's 1950 and 1951 All-Ireland winners has died". The 42. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  6. Quinn, Trevor (16 August 2017). "'I'll die a happy man if Mayo land Sam,' says surviving member of Mayo's last All-Ireland winning team". Irish Mirror. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
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