Anthony "Tony" Wall (born 9 May 1934) is an Irish former hurler and manager who played as a centre-back at senior level for the Tipperary county team.
Subsequent defeats of Lorrha, Na Piarsaigh, Toomevara and Kilruane MacDonagh's brought Wall's medal tally to five.
Further defeats of Moycarkey-Borris, Roscrea, Holycross-Ballycahill and Carrick Davins in a replay gave Wall his tenth championship medal.
Tipp lost their provincial title to Cork in 1951; however, Wall added a second Munster minor medal to his collection in 1952 when he captained the team from the half-forward line.
Wall played in the full-back position for a number of years and collected his first silverware, a National Hurling League medal.
Liam Devaney, Donie Nealon and Larry Keane all scored goals for Tipp in the first-half, while Wall sent a seventy-yard free untouched to the Galway net.
Tipp won the game by 4–9 to 2–5 giving Wall his first senior All-Ireland medal and the honour of collecting the Liam MacCarthy Cup.
[5] Wall was also named as man of the match and had now gone down in history as one of the few players to captain his county to All-Ireland titles at both minor and senior levels.
Wall won a second National League medal in 1959 following a 0–15 to 0–7 defeat of Waterford, however, Tipperary surrendered their provincial and All-Ireland crowns.
A certain amount of over-confidence was obvious in the Tipperary camp, particularly in trainer Phil Purcell's comment that no player was capable of marking Jimmy Doyle.
When the crowd were finally moved off the pitch Tipperary continued playing with only twelve men, but Wexford won on a score line of 2–15 to 0–11.
1961 saw Wall collect a fourth National League medal, however, he missed the subsequent Munster final against Cork due to his duties with the army in Cyprus.
The absence of the All-Ireland semi-final allowed Tipp to advance directly to the final itself with Dublin's first native hurling team providing the opposition.
[7] Tipp's nemesis of two-year's earlier, Wexford, waited in Croke Park to test them once again in the subsequent All-Ireland final.
After losing the following year's Munster final to Waterford in one of the hurling shocks of the decade, Tipperary bounced back in 1964 with Wall collecting a fifth National League medal.
Tipp later cantered casually past Cork by fourteen points in the provincial decider, giving Wall a fourth Munster medal.
Tipp lost their provincial and All-Ireland crowns in spectacular fashion at the first hurdle in 1966 when a young Limerick team took them by surprise.
A 5–5 apiece draw was the result on that occasion, however, Wall collected a fourth Railway Cup medal following a one-point victory in the replay.