The 1958 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 71st All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1958 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Match Summary
Dublin won comfortably over Derry, appearing in their first final, with goals by Owen Gribben and Paddy Farnan.High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
Details
Dublin 1 P. O'Flaherty 2 L. Foley 3 M. Wilson 4 Joe Timmons 5 C. O'Leary 6 J. Crowley 7 J. Boyle 8 John Timmons 9 S. Murray 10 P. Haughey 11 O. Freaney 12 D. Ferguson 13 P. Farnan 14 J. Joyce 15 K. Heffernan (c)
Subs used 16 M. Whelan for S. Murray 18 P. Downey for John Timmons
Subs not used 17 J. Brennan 19 B. Morris 20 C. Leaney 21 T. Gillen 22 D. McCann
Trainer P. O'Reilly
Derry 1 P. Gormley 2 P. McLarnon 3 H. F. Gribben 4 T. Doherty 5 P. Breen 6 C. Mulholland 7 P. Smith 8 J. McKeever (c) 9 P. Stuart 10 S. O'Connell 11 B. Murray 12 D. McKeever 13 B. Mullan 14 O. Gribben 15 C. Higgins
Subs used 18 R. Gribben (player-manager) for Higgins 19 L. O'Neill for Mullan 17 C. O'Neill for Breen
Other subs 16 H. Cassidy 20 W. Cassidy #? T. Scullion #? S. Young #? L. Mulholland #? T. J. Doherty
Player-manager R. Gribben
Legacy Players from both teams involved in the game had a golden jubilee reunion in 2008, organised with the help of Dublin's 1970s footballers such as Alan Larkin.
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