1944 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
| Event | 1944 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 3 September 1944 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | M. Hennessy (Clare) | ||||||
| Attendance | 26,896 | ||||||
The 1944 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 57th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1944 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Croke Park, Dublin, on 3 September 1944, between Cork and Dublin. The Leinster champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 2-13 to 1-2.
This was Cork's fourth All-Ireland title in succession.
Sunday 3 September was the date of the 1944 All-Ireland senior hurling final between Dublin and Cork. It was Cork’s fourth consecutive appearance in the championship decider in-a-row, while Dublin last played in the All-Ireland final in 1942 when they were defeated by Cork.
On that occasion the fifteen members of the Cork team were one game away from uniqueness. The All-Ireland final was a game that would set them apart from all other great hurling teams in the past and in the future as no other county had won four All-Ireland hurling titles in-a-row. Cork achieved their first treble in 1894 while Tipperary and Kilkenny followed suit in 1900 and 1913 respectively. On a damp September afternoon in 1944 Cork were out to break all records.
With the pre-match festivities completed the game began at 3:15pm. Wartime travel restrictions meant that the attendance was just below 27,000, while a damp day resulted in a heavy sod under foot. The opening ten minutes did not go Cork’s way as many commentators had anticipated. Dublin, with a host of household names on their team held the champions scoreless during the opening ten-minute tussle. It was left the Jack Lynch, Cork’s dual player, to open the scores with a point. Seán Condon, the young team captain, stretched Cork’s lead soon afterwards when he rifled over another three points for his team. Christy Ring was the third Cork player to get his name on the score sheet when he sent over his first point of the day. This point was soon followed by a Con Cottrell effort that also sailed over the bar to stretch Cork’s lead even further. Cork’s final two points of the opening thirty minutes came from midfielder Jack Lynch, the man who opened Cork’s scoring account. Dublin’s scoring efforts throughout the opening half only yielded two points, resulting in a 0-8 to 0-2 lead for ‘the Rebels’ at the interval.
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