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Football match
1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Event1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Dublin Waterford
2–8
(14)
0–4
(4)
Date8 April 1900
CityTipperary
RefereeJohn McCarthy (Kilkenny)
Attendance1,000
Weatherwind and rain
1897 1899

The 1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the eleventh All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Dublin, who led 1–6 to 0–3 at the interval, were the winners, with Joe Ledwidge scoring both goals. The captain of the winning team was Matt Rea.

At this time, club teams represented their counties with the Geraldines club representing Dublin and Waterford represented by the Erin's Hope club of Dungarvan.

It was the fifth of six All-Ireland football titles won by Dublin in the 1890s.

References

  1. High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  2. "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
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