The 1948 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 61st All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1948 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Croke Park, Dublin, on 5 September 1948, between Waterford and Dublin. The Leinster champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 6–7 to 4–2.
A medal won by one of the Waterford players went missing during a burglary in County Wexford in November 2022.
Match details
Dublin team
1 K. Matthews 2 N. Dunphy 3 D. Walsh 4 S. Cronin 5 T. Herbert 6 J. Butler 7 P. Donnelly 8 M. Hassett 9 L. Donnelly 10 J. Kennedy 11 D. Cantwell 12 S. Óg Ó Ceallacháin 13 M. Williams 14 J. Prior 15 F. Cummins (c)
Substitutes 16 J. O'Callaghan 17 S. Coughlan 18 O. Keeley 19 P. Thornton 20 C. Keeley 21 J. Drumgoole 22 D. Dillon
Waterford Team
1 Jim Ware 2 Andy Fleming 3 John Cusack 4 Jackie Goode 5 Mick Hickey 6 Vin Baston 7 Mick Hayes 8 Johnny O'Connor 9 Eddie Carew 10 Kevin O'Connor 11 John Keane 12 Christy Moylan 13 Billy Galvin 14 Eddie Daly 15 Tom Curran Substitutes 16 Patrick Waters 17 James Galvin 18 Joseph Murphy 19 Patrick Neville 20 Larry Fanning 21 Michael Healy 22 Michael Feeney Manager/Selector Charlie Ware snr Trainer Jim Ware
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