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1971 All Ireland Under 21 Hurling Championship

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Winners
  
Cork (5th win)

Runners-up
  
Wexford

Munster
  
Cork

Captain
  
Pat McDonnell

Captain
  
Martin Quigley

Leinster
  
Wexford

The 1971 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship was the eighth staging of Ireland's hurling knock-out competition for players aged between 18 and 21. Cork won the championship, beating Wexford 7-8 to 1-11 in the final.

Contents

All-Ireland Championship

Semi-finals: (2 matches) The three provincial winners join Galway to make up the four semi-finalists. The pairings are Munster v Ulster and Leinster v Galway. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while two teams advance to the All-Ireland final.

Final: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest the All-Ireland final.

Miscellaneous

  • Cork's victory in the championship decider is the county's fourth All-Ireland title in succession and fifth in six years. The 'four-in-a-row' is a record which still stands as of 2010.
  • Wexford become the first team to lose three All-Ireland finals in-a-row.

    • 4 goals in a final and 4 goals and a point in semi-final at U21 by John (Rocky) Rothwell are high scoring records which still stand as of 2013.

    References

    1971 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Wikipedia
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