{"id":3245,"date":"2017-08-03T13:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2017-08-03T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:30:31","slug":"poplars-vs-bottlenecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/poplars-vs-bottlenecks\/","title":{"rendered":"POPLARS VS BOTTLENECKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leinster Leader<\/em> 30 June 1956<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former Stars in \u201cSarto\u201d Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPoplars,\u201d 0-5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cBottlenecks,\u201d 1-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Memories were recalled on Monday at Sarto Park, of Kildare as the power in Gaelic football.\u00a0 Spectators of the Poplars \u2013 Bottlenecks match saw one of the team that won the All-Ireland in \u201927 and \u201928, Gussie Fitzpatrick, give an exhibition of goalkeeping that would befit a man half his age.<\/p>\n

All during this game \u2013 a goal against him at any time would have meant defeat for his team \u2013 he kept his line intact with the agility of a youth, and, by his uncanny anticipation and safe hands saved many goals. The brilliance of his goal-keeping inspired his team-mates, and the \u201cBottlenecks\u201d last line of defence stood as the rock on which all the \u201cPoplars\u2019\u201d hopes of a goal perished.<\/p>\n

Christy Higgins, another player who gave great service to Naas in his younger days, showed that he lost none of the skill and cleverness that had made him a great back.\u00a0 But, while executing a body swerve he slipped and twisted his knee, which was weakened from injuries received in former matches, and was forced to retire. Another back who played a very sound game was Paddy Herbert, who broke up a great number of his opponents attacks with his effortless fielding and long kicking.<\/p>\n

Tribute to Skill<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fact that the veteran, or near veteran backline stood up to a nimble set of forwards for the full hour is a great tribute to their ability and skill.\u00a0 They never tired, and smashed attack after attack so that the \u201cPoplars\u201d could not get the goal that would win the match for them, and had to take all their points from far out.<\/p>\n

The \u201cPoplars\u2019\u201d defence was not near as steadfast as their opponents, though they held their lines successfully for a time \u2013 mainly through the efforts of Kit Keogh, the star of the team, Paddy Flynn, George Walsh and Denis Fitzpatrick.<\/p>\n

Generalled by Jimmy Dignam, the \u201cBottlenecks\u201d had the better of their encounters with the backs.\u00a0 On many occasions they got the ball near the \u201cforty,\u201d and had the defence at sixes and sevens as they raced for the goal.\u00a0 But their shooting was a little below form, and it was not until near half-time that they notched their first score \u2013 a goal \u2013 per Eddie Marum.<\/p>\n

Teams<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPoplars\u201d (J. McHugh\u2019s team) \u2013 P. Flynn, D. Fitzpatrick, B. Lawler, C. Keogh, S. McCormack, M. Scully, J. Brennan, J. Mulvey, P. Leavy, M. Walsh, M. Murphy, S. Dunne.<\/p>\n

\u201cBottlenecks (E. Marum\u2019s team) \u2013 Gus Fitzpatrick, B. Gaffney, K. Smith, C. Higgins, J. Halligan, P. Herbert, S. Coyle, J. Sheridan, M. Murray, P. Vivash, J. Dignam, W. O\u2019Brien, E. Marum, T. Coyle, J. Hughes.<\/p>\n

Subs. \u2013 G. Higgins replaced C. Higgins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leinster Leader 30 June 1956 Former Stars in \u201cSarto\u201d Challenge \u201cPoplars,\u201d 0-5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cBottlenecks,\u201d 1-2. \u00a0Memories were recalled on Monday at Sarto Park, of Kildare as the power in Gaelic football.\u00a0 Spectators of the Poplars \u2013 Bottlenecks match saw one of the team that won the All-Ireland in \u201927 and \u201928, Gussie Fitzpatrick, give an exhibition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspaper-articles"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}