1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

Football match

1938 All-Ireland
Senior Football Final

Event

1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Galway	Kerry

3–3 (12)	2–6 (12)

Date

25 September 1938

Venue

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance

68,950

← 1937

Football match

1938 All-Ireland
Senior Football Final Replay

Galway	Kerry

2–4 (10)	0–7 (7)

Date

23 October 1938

Venue

Croke Park, Dublin

Referee

P. Maguire

Attendance

47,851

1939 →

The 1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 51st All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Kerry supporters complained that the final whistle had gone too early in the first match, disallowing a late John Joe Landers winner. When the replay ended before Kerry could take a free which could have given an equalising goal, angry fans invaded the pitch. A loudspeaker appeal allowed the game to continue, and Galway won anyway.^[1]

Bobby Beggs lined out for the winning Galway team that day; he had earlier been on the Dublin side defeated by Galway in the final of 1934.^[2]

Match details

25 September 1938 Final	Galway	3–3 – 2–6	Kerry	Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 68,950
			Sean Brosnan (0-1), Paddy Kennedy (0-1), Tony McAuliffe (0-1), John Joe Landers (1-0), Miko Doyle (0-2) & Tim O'Leary (1-1).	Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 68,950

23 October 1938 Final (Replay)	Galway	2–4 – 0–7	Kerry	Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 47,851 Referee: P. Maguire
			Sean Brosnan (0-3), Charlie O'Sullivan (0-1) & Miko Doyle (0-3).	Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 47,851 Referee: P. Maguire

Galway

Kerry

References

^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
^ Kenny, Tom (14 April 2011). "The men who first brought Sam to Galway". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 14 April 2011. Bobby Beggs was on the defeated Dublin team [in 1934] but in 1938 he was on the Galway team that triumphed by beating Kerry by 2 – 4 to 0 – 7.

External links

"All Ireland Gaelic Football Final (1938)" on YouTube, a British Pathé newsreel of the game

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