1953 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions | |
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Winning team | Mayo (2nd win) |
All-Ireland Finalists | |
Losing team | Clare |
Provincial Champions | |
Munster | Clare |
Leinster | Westmeath |
Louth | Armagh |
Connacht | Mayo |
The 1953 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship was the 22nd staging of the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament for boys under the age of 18.
Galway entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were defeated in the Connacht Championship.
On 27 September 1953, Mayo won the championship following a 2-11 to 1-6 defeat of Clare in the All-Ireland final. This was their second All-Ireland title overall and their first in fifteen championship seasons.[1]
Results
Quarter-Final
Mayo 1-7 Roscommon 0-2.
Semi-Finals
Sligo 2-3 Leitrim 0-8
Mayo 2-13 Galway 3-5
Final
Mayo Beat Sligo
Final[2]
Louth v Kildare
26 July 1953 | Louth | 1–06 - 0–06 | Kildare | Croke Park |
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Semi-finals
Final
Championship statistics
Miscellaneous
- Clare win the Munster Championship for the first time since 1930.
References
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All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
All-Ireland Minor Football Championship | |
Championships |
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- Connacht Championship
- Leinster Championship
- Munster Championship
- Ulster Championship