Wexford senior football team
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| Irish: | Loch Garman | ||
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| Province: | Leinster | ||
| Nickname(s): | The Model County The Yellowbellies The Slaneysiders The Strawberry Pickers |
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| County colours: |
Purple, Gold |
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| Ground(s): | Wexford Park, Wexford | ||
| Dominant sport: | Hurling | ||
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| NFL: | Division 3 | ||
| NHL: | Division 1A | ||
| Football Championship: | Sam Maguire Cup | ||
| Hurling Championship: | Liam MacCarthy Cup | ||
| Ladies' Gaelic football: | Brendan Martin Cup | ||
| Camogie: | O'Duffy Cup | ||
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Purple, Gold
The Wexford County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cumann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Chontae Loch Garman) or Wexford GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Wexford. The county board is also responsible for the Wexford inter-county teams.
Wexford is one of the few counties to have won the All-Ireland Senior Championship in both football and hurling. Wexford have won five Football Championships, with the most recent in 1918.
Hurling has been played in Wexford from medieval times. Evidence of this can be found in the hurling ballads of the 15th and 16th centuries. The nickname "Yellowbellies" is said to have been given to the county's hurlers by Sir Caesar Colclough of Tintern in south Wexford, following a 17th-century game between a team of hurlers under his patronage and a team of hurlers from Cornwall, near Glynn in county Wexford. Others have said that King George III shouted "come on the yellow bellies" at an exhibition match near London, in which the Wexford hurlers were wearing yellow ribbons.
Wexford had one of the greatest football teams in the history of the GAA in the 1910s, winning six Leinster and four All-Ireland titles in a row. The team was trained by 1900 star James 'the Bull' Roche, who had fought for the World Heavyweight boxing Championship. The team featured Fr. Ned Wheeler, Aidan Doyle and the O'Kennedy brothers, Gus and Sean. The latter was the team captain. The feat of six Leinster titles in a row was only equalled in 1931 when Kildare won the sixth in a sequence that began in 1926.
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