1968 All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship

1968 All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship
All Ireland Champions
Winners	Warwickshire (1st win)
All Ireland Runners-up
Runners-up	Kerry
Captain	Bill McCarthy
Provincial Champions
Munster	Not Played
Leinster	Louth
Ulster	Antrim
Connacht	Sligo
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WinnersWarwickshire (1st win)

Runners-upKerry

CaptainBill McCarthy

MunsterNot Played

The 1968 All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship was the 47th staging of the All-Ireland Junior Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1912.^[1]^[2]

Wicklow were the defending champions.^[3]

The All-Ireland final was played on 6 October 1968 at Glebe Park in Birmingham, between Warwickshire and Kerry, in what was their first ever meeting in the final. Warwickshire won the match by 1–14 to 1–09 to claim their first ever All-Ireland title.^[4]

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25 August 1968 Semi-final	Kerry	4-08 - 3-06	Antrim	Austin Stack Park
	P O'Sullivan 2-0, B McCarthy 1-3, J O'Sullivan 1-1, B Lawlor 0-2, C Flaherty 0-2.		M McKerney 2-1, S Shannon 1-0, A Hamill 0-3, S McMullan 0-2.

25 August 1968 Semi-final	Sligo	3-09 - 2-08	Louth	Markievicz Park
	C O'Neill 1-2, W Murphy 1-2, T McMorrow 1-0, T Flannery 0-2, T Hayden 0-1, M Burke 0-1.		P O'Brien 2-2, J Lane 0-3, D Murray 0-2, F Cooney 0-1.

8 September 1968 Home final	Kerry	6-09 - 5-09	Sligo	Ballinasloe Grounds
	B McCarthy 2-5, J Conlon 2-0, B Twomey 1-1, J O'Sullivan 1-1, C Flaherty 0-1, T O'Sullivan 0-1.		T McNamara 2-4, T Flannery 2-0, S Armstrong 1-0, W Murphy 0-3, J McDonagh 0-1, N Rooney 0-1.

6 October 1968 Final	Warwickshire	1-14 - 1-09	Kerry	Glebe Park
	C Crowe 0-12, C Danaher 1-0, W Hogan 0-1, D Dunne 0-1.		N Power 1-0, C Flaherty 0-3, P O'Sullivan 0-2, B Twomey 0-2, C O'Sullivan 0-1, B McCarthy 0-1.

1968 All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship

All-Ireland semi-finals

All-Ireland home final

All-Ireland final

References

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