The 1893 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the sixth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the

1893 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship The 1893 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the seventh staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. The previous 2 years All Ireland champions Dublin didn't take part in the Leinster Championship called off game ...

, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in

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. Wexford were represented by Young Irelands, a club based in the Selskar area of Wexford town, while Cork were represented by Dromtariffe. Wexford led 1-1 to 0-1 early in the second half, when a

pitch invasion A pitch invasion (known in North America as field storming or rushing the field) occurs when a person or a crowd of people spectating a sporting event run onto the competition area, usually to celebrate or protest an incident, or sometimes as ...

began and several players were injured. The referee tried to restart the game with substitutes to replace injured players, but Cork refused. Wexford were awarded the title.''High Ball'' magazine, issue #6, 1998. Cork and Wexford did not meet again in the Championship until 2010.

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