The 1960 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 73rd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1960 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Match Summary The game turned in Down's favour 11 minutes into the second half with James McCartan scoring a goal directly from a line ball; two minutes later Paddy Doherty scored a penalty.High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
This was Down's first ever appearance in an All-Ireland final, and it brought with it their first win. It was the first of three All-Ireland football titles won by Down in the 1960s, which made them joint "team of the decade" with Galway who also won three. Down won their next four All-Ireland football finals, with this run only broken in their sixth appearance, by a one-point defeat to Cork in 2010.
This was also the first championship meeting of Down and Kerry.
Down returned to that stage of the competition for the fiftieth anniversary, the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final.
Details
Down 1 E. McKay 2 G. Lavery 3 L. Murphy 4 P. Rice 5 K. Mussen (c) 6 D. McCartan 7 K.O'Neill 8 J. Lennon 9 J. Carey 10 S. O'Neill 11 J. McCartan 12 P. Doherty 13 T. Hadden 14 P. O'Hagan 15 B. Morgan
Sub used 17 K. Denvir for J. Lennon
Subs not used 16 E. Clements 18 P. J. McElroy 19 J. Kaughlain 20 P. Fitzsimons
Manager B. Carr
Kerry 1 J. Culloty 2 J. O'Shea 3 N. Sheehy 4 T. Lyons 5 Seán Murphy 6 K. Coffey 7 M. O'Dwyer 8 M. O'Connell 9 J. D. O'Connor 10 Séamus Murphy 11 T. Long 12 P. Sheehy (c) 13 G. McMahon 14 John Dowling 15 T. Lyne
Subs used Jack Dowling for John Dowling J. Brosnan for G. McMahon D. McAuliffe for T. Lyne
References
External links Down's historic All-Ireland win remembered 60 years on