1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
{{Short description|Football championship}}
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|year=1888
|team= Not played
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|leinster=Kilkenny
|munster=Tipperary
|ulster= Monaghan
|connacht=Not played
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|previous=1887
|next=1889
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The 1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was unfinished owing to the American Invasion Tour, an unsuccessful attempt to raise funds for a revival of the Tailteann Games.{{Cite web |url=http://www.crokepark.ie/GAA-Museum/GAA-Archive/Articles-on-the-history-of-the-GAA/The-1888-American-Invasion-Tour |title=The 1888 American Invasion Tour |access-date=2011-07-02 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120802095440/http://www.crokepark.ie/GAA-Museum/GAA-Archive/Articles-on-the-history-of-the-GAA/The-1888-American-Invasion-Tour |archive-date=2012-08-02 |url-status=dead }}
The 1888 provincial championships had been completed (Tipperary, Kilkenny and Monaghan winning them; no Connacht teams entered) but after the Invasion tour returned, the All-Ireland semi-final and final were not played.{{Cite web |url=http://www.hoganstand.com/general/champs/honoursf.aspx |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716104405/http://hoganstand.com/general/champs/honoursf.aspx |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead }}
Results
=Leinster=
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date = 3 June 1888
Quarter-final|
team1 = Dublin |
score = 1–6 – 0–1 |
team2 = Kildare|
goals1 = |
goals2 = |
stadium = Donnybrook|
attendance = |
referee = JJ Reilly}}
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date = 10 June 1888
Quarter-final|
team1 = Kilkenny |
score = 1–3 – 0–0 |
team2 = Queen's County|
goals1 = |
goals2 = |
stadium = Maryborough|
attendance = 10,000 |
referee = GF Moore}}
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date = 1 July 1888
Quarter-final|
team1 = Wicklow |
score = 0–2 – 0–1 |
team2 = Wexford|
goals1 = |
goals2 = |
stadium = Donnybrook|
attendance = 8,000 |
referee = JJ Reilly}}
Wicklow used illegal players, and the game was stopped by a pitch invasion with ten minutes to go, so a replay was ordered.
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date = 19 August 1888
Quarter-final replay|
team2 = Wicklow |
score = 1–3 – 0–2 |
team1 = Wexford|
goals1 = |
goals2 = |
stadium = Clonskeagh|
attendance = 5,000 |
referee = JP Cox}}
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date = 19 August 1888
Quarter-final|
team1 = Louth |
score = 2–4 – 0–0 |
team2 = Meath|
goals1 = |
goals2 = |
stadium = Bryanstown|
attendance = |
referee = JJ O'Reilly}}
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date = 2 September 1888
Semi-final |
team1 = Kilkenny |
score = 2-1 – 0–3 |
team2 = Louth|
goals1 = |
goals2 = |
stadium = Clonskeagh
| attendance =
| referee = JJ Cullen}}
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date = 2 September 1888
Semi-final |
team1 = Wexford |
score = 0–4 – 0–3 |
team2 = Dublin|
goals1 = |
goals2 = |
stadium = Clonskeagh
| attendance =
| referee = T Harrington}}
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date = 23 September 1888
Final |
team1 = Kilkenny |
score = 1–4 – 0–2 |
team2 = Wexford|
goals1 = |
goals2 = |
stadium = New Ross
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| referee =}}
=Munster=
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date =27 May 1888
Quarter-final |
team1 = Tipperary |
score = 0-2 – 0-2 |
team2 = Cork|
goals1 = |
goals2 = |
stadium = Buttevant
| attendance =12,000
| referee = T.O'Riordan}}
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date =8 July 1888
Semi-final|
team1 = Clare |
score = 1-3 – 1-0 |
team2 = Limerick|
goals1 = |
goals2 = |
stadium = Birdhill
| attendance =
| referee = J Callinan}}
Limerick were awarded the game due to Clare playing illegal players.
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date =22 July 1888
Semi-final|
team1 = Tipperary |
score = 0-3 – 0-1 |
team2 = Waterford|
goals1 = |
goals2 = |
stadium = Clonmel
| attendance =
| referee = T Harrington}}
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date =10 November 1888
Final |
team1 = Tipperary |
score = w/o – scr. |
team2 = Limerick|
goals1 = |
goals2 = |
stadium = Pallasgreen
| attendance =
| referee =}}
=Ulster=
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date = 19 August 1888
Final |
team1 = Monaghan |
score = 0–2 – 0–2 |
team2 = Cavan|
goals1 = |
goals2 = |
stadium = Drogheda
| attendance =
| referee =}}
Neither team could field the full 21 players, so 15-a-side was agreed.
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date = 9 September 1888
Final Replay|
team1 = Monaghan |
score = 0–3 – 0–0 |
team2 = Cavan|
goals1 = |
goals2 = |
stadium = Bryanstown, County Meath
| attendance =
| referee =}}
Statistics
Sligo and Mayo played a draw in the Connacht final. There is no record of a replay.
=Miscellaneous=
No All-Ireland series due to US tour.
References
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{{All-Ireland Senior Football Championship}}