1951–52 National Football League (Ireland)

The 1951–52 National Football League was the 21st staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.

1951–52 National Football League

League details
Dates	6 October 1951 – 30 September 1952
League champions
Winners	Cork (1st win)
Captain	Éamonn Young
League runners-up
Runners-up	New York
Captain	Tom "Gega" O'Connor
← 1950–51 1952–53 →

Cork beat Dublin in the home final and easily dismissed New York in the Polo Grounds final, played at night under floodlights. New York didn't return to the final until 1963.^[1][2][3][4]

Format

Teams are placed into Divisions I, II, III and IV. The top team in each division reaches the home semi-finals. The winner of the home final plays New York in the NFL final.

Results

Division I

Division II

Division III

Cork won, ahead of Galway, Clare, Mayo and Kerry.

Division IV

Finals

27 April 1952
Home Final

Cork	2-3 – 1-5	Dublin

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance: 30,070^[5]

Referee: Dan Ryan (Kerry)^[6]

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18 May 1952
Final

9:00 p.m. EDT

Cork	1-12 – 0-3	New York
		Tom O'Connor 0-2, Pat McAndrew 0-1

Polo Grounds, New York City

Attendance: 33,914 ^[7]

Referee: Dan Ryan (Kerry)^[8]