1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

June 2018 June 2018 1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final 1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Kerry 40px 1–8(11) Galway 40px 0–7(7) 7 September 1941 Croke Park Dublin Patrick McKenna (Limerick) 45,512 1940 1942 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. Paths to the final Kerry required a replay to defeat Dublin in the All-Ireland SFC semi-final. The first game was held at Croke Park on 10 August; the replay in Tralee the following Sunday, 17 August. This was the last All-Ireland SFC semi-final replay played outside Croke Park until 1983, when Dublin contested a semi-final replay against Cork at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. P. D. Mehigan (or "Pat'O") wrote of the first game: "At the very last minute Murt Kelly drove high at the Dublin posts and the ball glanced off the upright for the balancing point. Dublin had played the better football but both sets of forwards shot wildly when well placed. As I anticipated here last week, it was a low-scoring game and without a goal, and the backs had far the better of the argument throughout. Keohane, Myers, Casey and Dillon shone in Kerry's defence whilst Kennedy, Falvey, Murphy and Quinn played steady football for Dublin".Seán Moran https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/remembering-when-kerry-kicked-ahead-of-dublin-78-years-ago-1.4014161 Remembering when Kerry kicked ahead of Dublin 78 years ago: This year will be only the third replay between the counties, and the first in Croke Park The Irish Times 11 September 2019 11 September 2019 20,000 people attended the replay; half of Dublin's team spent the night before in Limerick and landed late after a trip on a wartime turf-trains. Pat'O recorded Dublin as being "outclassed" by a scoreline of 2–9 to 0–3. When Tom O'Connor scored a goal in the twentieth minute, it was — he wrote — "the beginning of the end". Dublin, incidentally, were not Leinster Senior Football Championship winners as would usually have been the case at this time for an All-Ireland SFC semi-finalist; the province nominated them to play Kerry due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. (The 1941 Leinster SFC final, Dublin v Carlow, was held in November, with Dublin winning by 4–6 to 1–4). Match This year's final was played on 7 September.https://www.gaa.ie/api/pdfs/image/upload/t8bphnbixyanijooj1un.pdfbook The Complete Handbook of GAELIC GAMES 2021 DBA 149July 2026 InternetArchiveBot Summary Kerry completed a three-in-a-row, with a goal by Tom 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.High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998. It was the second of three All-Ireland SFC titles won by Kerry in the 1940s.http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/kerry-on-honour-roll-1885579.html Kerry on honour roll Irish Independent 14 September 2009 14 September 2009 It was also the second of three consecutive All-Ireland SFC finals lost by Galway.Tom Kenny https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/38701/the-men-who-first-brought-sam-to-galway The men who first brought Sam to Galway Galway Advertiser 14 April 2011 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. With their 1940 win, Kerry had reached 14 All-Ireland SFC titles, drawing level with Dublin. Dublin had been in the lead since 1892. In 1941, Kerry took the lead; Dublin equalled the new total in 1942, but never again managed to surpass Kerry's total. Details 7 September 1941Final Kerry football 1–8 – 0–7 Galway football Tom Gega O'Connor (1–1), Paddy Bawn Brosnan (0–2), Jimmy Gawksie O'Gorman (0–3), Murt Kelly (0–2) J Dunne & J Burke (0–3), E Mulhaolland (0–1) Croke Park, Dublin 45,512 Patrick McKenna (Limerick) Kerry 1 D. O'Keeffe 2 B. Myers 3 J. Keohane 4 T. Healy 5 B. Dillon (c) 6 B. Casey 7 E. Walsh 8 S. Brosnan 9 P. Kennedy 10 J. Walsh 11 T. O'Connor 12 P. B. Brosnan 13 J. O'Gorman 14 M. Kelly 15 C. O'Sullivan Subs used T. Landers for B. Myers M. Lyne for J. Walsh Galway 1 J. McGauran 2 M. Raftery 3 P. McDonagh 4 D. O'Sullivan (c) 5 F. Cunniffe 6 B. Beggs 7 J. Duggan 8 C. Connolly 9 D. Kavanagh 10 J. Hanniffy 11 J. Dunne 12 J. Canavan 13 N. Mulholland 14 P. McDonagh 15 J. Burke Sub used 18 P. Thornton for J. Canavan Subs not used 16 J. Casey 17 J. Flavin 19 P. Mitchell 20 C. O'Connor 21 B. Nestor 22 L. Kitt 23 J. 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