Winners Meath (3rd win) Runners-up New York | Captain Paddy Meegan Captain Tom "Gega" O'Connor | |
Dates October 1950 – 30 September 1951 | ||
The 1950–51 National Football League was the 20th staging of the National Football League, an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.
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Thirty counties participated; Kilkenny and Limerick did not participate.
Meath won the home final and flew to New York for the real final. Despite some players being weakened by smallpox vaccination, they beat New York by a goal and sailed home in triumph on the SS Nieuw Amsterdam. John 'Lefty' Devine commentated on the radio, and was criticised for his newly acquired New York accent (he was a native of County Clare).
Format
Teams are placed into Divisions I, II, III and IV. The top team in each division reaches the home semi-finals. The winner of the home final plays New York in the NFL final.
Division II
Tipperary, Carlow, Cork, Wexford, Waterford
Division III
Mayo won, ahead of Galway, Clare, Laois and Kerry.
Division IV
Meath,Wicklow, Westmeath,Kildare, Louth and Dublin.
Division V
Roscommon,Longford, Sligo,Leitrim, Offaly and Cavan.