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Gaelic football tournament in Ireland
1932β33 National Football League Dates April 1932 β September 1933 Winners
Meath (1st win) Captain
Bill Shaw Runners-up
Cavan Captain
Jim Smith
The 1932β33 National Football League was the 6th staging of the
National Football League , a
Gaelic football tournament for the
Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of
Ireland , held in 1932 and 1933.
Meath won the league, with captain
Bill Shaw (
Summerhill ) scoring a last-minute point to win the final.
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Format
There were three divisions β Western, 'A', and Midland. The winners of the Western Division met the winners of Division 'A' in the semi-final, while the winners of the Midland Division proceeded to the final.
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There was also a Special Division, but the winners of this did not progress to the knockout stages.
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Main League
Midland Division
Results
Louth and
Armagh both withdrew.
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Table
Division 'A'
Results
Table
Team
Pld
W
D
L
Pts
Status
Meath
3
3
0
0
6
Qualified for Semi-Final
Kerry
3
2
0
1
4
Dublin
3
1
0
2
2
Laois
3
0
0
3
0
Western Division
Mayo won, ahead of Sligo, Galway, Leitrim and Roscommon.
Results
Finals
Special Division
Special Division (Eastern Section)
Wicklow ,
Wexford ,
Carlow ,
Special Division (Southern Section)
Cork ,
Waterford ,
Clare ,
Limerick
Final
References
^
"Bill Shaw, Summerhill" . Archived from
the original on 15 July 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2015 .
^
GAA Final Teams
Archived 2015-07-13 at the
Wayback Machine
^
"GAA Archive 1933" . Archived from
the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015 .
^ Ganlysays, Teresa (28 January 2019).
"1933" . Mayo GAA Blog . Retrieved 22 December 2023 .
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ISBN
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