Dr Lagan Cup
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The Dr Lagan Cup (also called the Ulster Football League or the Four Counties League, Five Counties League),[1] was an inter-county Gaelic football competition in the province of Ulster. The competition was discontinued in 1967. The Lagan Cup was the trophy for a Senior Football League, which at the time was limited to seven Ulster counties, unlike the Dr McKenna Cup, which is a knockout competition that includes all nine of Ulster's counties; Cavan and Fermanagh did not usually take part.
It was first held in 1937,[2] and the trophy was donated by Dr. Felix Lagan of Omagh, a nationalist and promoter of Gaelic games.[3] The competition functioned in several years as the Northern Division of the National Football League. It was typically played as a round-robin with either a single game or two games between each team, and no final. It was last played in 1967; the original trophy is kept at the Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Memorial Library and Archive in Armagh.[4]
Frankie Donnelly holds the record for the highest individual scoring tally in an inter-county match, with 4-11 for Tyrone against Fermanagh in the 1957 Dr Lagan Cup.[5][6]
