1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
Event 1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date 7 September 1941
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance 45,512

The 1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 54th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Kerry completed a three-in-a-row with a goal by Tom "Gega" O'Connor. The attendance was affected by restrictions under "The Emergency", with a thousand fans travelling by peat-fueled train, and two Kerrymen cycling a tandem bicycle from Killarney to Dublin.[1]

It was the second of three All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1940s.[2]

It was also the second of three consecutive All-Ireland football finals lost by Galway.[3]

References

  1. ↑ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  2. ↑ "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
  3. ↑ Kenny, Tom (14 April 2011). "The men who first brought Sam to Galway". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 14 April 2011. Then, they lost three in a row, in 1940 to Kerry by 0 – 7 to 1 – 3; in 1941 to Kerry by 1 – 8 to 0 – 7; and in 1942 to Dublin by 1 – 10 to 1 – 8.
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