All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1965

Infobox Hurling All-Ireland
year=1965


team=Tipperary
titles=21st
captain=Jimmy Doyle
manager=
munster=Tipperary
leinster=Wexford
ulster=
connacht=
poty=Jimmy Doyle
matches=
The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship of 1965 was the 79th edition of Ireland’s premier hurling knockout competition. The championship ran from May to September of that year, culminating with the All-Ireland final, held at Croke Park, Dublin on 5 September. The match was contested by Tipperary and Wexford, with Tipperary taking the title by 2-16 to 0-10. It was Tipperary’s second All-Ireland title in-a-row and their fourth in five years.

Format

The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual. All games were played on a knockout basis whereby once a team lost they were eliminated from the championship. The format for the All-Ireland series of games ran as follows:
* There were no All-Ireland semi-finals.
* The winners of the Munster Championship advanced directly to the All-Ireland final.
* The winners of the Leinster Championship advanced directly to the All-Ireland final.
* The Ulster Championship remained suspended due to a lack of competition.
* Galway, a team who faced no competition in the Connacht Championship, played in the Munster Championship for the seventh consecutive year.

All-Ireland ginal

Overview

Sunday 5 September was the date of the 1965 All-Ireland senior hurling final between Tipperary and Wexford. It was the third meeting of these two teams since 1960. Wexford took the title that year while Tipperary were the winners two years later in 1962. Tipperary were looking for a fourth All-Ireland title in five years.

Match report

At 3:15pm the sliothar was thrown in and the All-Ireland final began in earnest. Many people had thought that Tipperary’s hunger would be dulled by the fact that the team had won three of the previous four All-Ireland titles. Nothing could be further from the collective mind of the team as they cantered into the All-Ireland final. This game between these two great rivals, however, failed to live up to the shock of 1960 and the great comeback of 1962. In the first fifteen minutes Seán McLoughlin was at his clinical best when he flicked home a Jimmy Doyle shot for the opening goal of the day. Less than two minutes later McLoughlin was the goal-scoring hero again as he latched onto a Theo English pass and palmed the sliothar into the Wexford net. After this passage of play the writing was on the wall and Wexford knew that they were in trouble. At the interval Tipp had a 2-5 to 0-6 lead. They completely took over in the second-half and hit seven unanswered points in the last quarter to win by 2-16 to 0-10. It was an impressive fourth All-Ireland title from five final appearances in six years.

tatistics

footballbox
date=1965-09-05
15:15 BST
team1=Tipperary
score=2-16 – 0-10
team2=Wexford
report=
goals1=
goals2=
stadium=Croke Park, Dublin
attendance=67,498
referee= M. Hayes (Clare)

{| width=100% style="font-size: 90%"MATCH RULES
*60 minutes.
*Replay if scores level.
*Three named substitutes

References

* Corry, Eoghan, "The GAA Book of Lists" (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005).
* Donegan, Des, "The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games" (DBA Publications Limited, 2005).
* Sweeney, Éamonn, "Munster Hurling Legends" (The O'Brien Press, 2002).

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