1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

June 2018 June 2018 1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final 1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.jpg 1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Kerry 40px 2–12(18) Dublin 40px 0–11(11) 28 September 1975 Croke Park Dublin John Moloney (Tipperary) 66,346 1974 1976 The 1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 88th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. This was one of six All-Ireland SFC finals contested by both Dublin and Kerry between 1974 and 1986, a period when one of either team always contested the decider. Pre-match On the train to Dublin, Kerry manager Mick O'Dwyer and his players spoke to journalists. Jim Farrelly quoted O'Dwyer in the Sunday Independent as advocating a marriage ban for his players. "Marriage puts players back in their game". Kerry player Jimmy Deenihan was photographed during the train trip alongside his sister Patricia and said to Farrelly: "Four of us [Kerry players] are PE teachers. Saying 'no' to girls and drink and high Kerry social life has been hard!". Match This year's final was played on 28 September.https://www.gaa.ie/api/pdfs/image/upload/t8bphnbixyanijooj1un.pdfbook The Complete Handbook of GAELIC GAMES 2021 DBA 152July 2026 InternetArchiveBot Summary The Kerry captain was Mickey "Ned" O'Sullivan. John Egan and substitute Ger O'Driscoll scored goals for a win.High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998. The train journey described above challenged the perception that Kerry had entered the match as inexperienced. Before the match, Dublin were the betting favorites at 4/5, while Kerry were listed at 5/4 odds.Vincent Hogan Vincent Hogan https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/vincent-hogan-kingdoms-appetite-for-mischief-can-still-spook-the-finest-dublin-has-to-offer-38452762.html Kingdom's appetite for mischief can still spook the finest Dublin has to offer Irish Independent Independent News & Media 31 August 2019 31 August 2019 This was the second of four All-Ireland SFC titles won by Kerry in the 1970s.https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/kerry-on-honour-roll-26565988.html Kerry on honour roll Irish Independent Independent News & Media 14 September 2009 14 September 2009 https://www.gaa.ie/football/news/flashback-1975-all-ireland-sfc-final-kerry-v-dublin/ Flashback: 1975 All Ireland SFC Final - Kerry v Dublin 30 March 2020 GAA.ie 16 April 2020 Séamus McCarthy, aged 21 and later a Tipperary footballer, and his 50-year-old father Eddie McCarthy, became the first father-and-son pair to umpire at an All-Ireland final, doing so at the Hill 16 end of Croke Park.https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/day-has-arrived-for-tipperary-to-surrender-to-the-living-moment-39774559.html Day has arrived for Tipperary to surrender to the living moment Sunday Independent 22 November 2020 Details 28 September 1975 Final Kerry football 2–12 – 0–11 Dublin football M Sheehy 0–4, G O'Driscoll 1–0, J Egan 1–0, P Spillane 0–3, B Lynch 0–3, D Moran 0–2 J Keaveney 0–6, P Gogarty 0–2, B Doyle 0–1, B Pocock 0–1, B Mullins 0–1 Croke Park, Dublin 66,346 John Moloney (Tipperary) _whiteborder _goldhorizontal _whiteborder _hoops_gold 009900 009900 009900 ffffff 009900 Kerry _navyborder _darkblueneck _navyborder _skytop 8FB8EE 8FB8EE 8FB8EE 101a56 101a56 Dublin section May 2025 the teams not being laid out as, for instance, at 2024 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final#Details, with 'subon'/'suboff' templates included Kerry 1 Paudie O'Mahony 2 Ger O'Keeffe 3 John O'Keeffe 4 Jimmy Deenihan 5 Páidí Ó Sé 6 Tim Kennelly 7 Ger Power 8 Paudie Lynch 9 Pat McCarthy 10 Brendan Lynch 11 Denis "Ogie" Moran 12 Mickey "Ned" O'Sullivan (c) 13 John Egan 14 Mikey Sheehy 15 Pat Spillane Sub used 17 Ger O'Driscoll for M. O'Sullivan Subs not used 16 John Bunyan 18 John Long 19 Batt O'Shea 20 Donie O'Sullivan 21 Jackie Walsh Manager Mick O'Dwyer Dublin 1 Paddy Cullen 2 Gay O'Driscoll 3 Seán Doherty (c) 4 Robbie Kelleher 5 Paddy Reilly 6 Alan Larkin 7 Georgie Wilson 8 Brian Mullins 9 Bernard Brogan Snr 10 Anton O'Toole 11 Tony Hanahoe 12 David Hickey 13 John McCarthy 14 Jimmy Keaveney 15 Paddy Gogarty Subs used 17 Bobby Doyle for B. Brogan 18 Pat O'Neill for J. McCarthy 19 Brendan Pocock for P. Reilly Subs not used 16 Les Deegan 19 Stephen Rooney 20 Kevin Synnott 21 Jim Brogan 22 Fran Ryder 23 Liam Egan 24 Martin Noctorr Manager Kevin Heffernan Legacy According to Dermot Crowe, writing 50 years later in the Sunday Independent: "It can be argued with some validity that the '75 final was one of the most important Gaelic football games of all time, because of what it started and the impact it had on so many lives, far beyond Kerry and Dublin".https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/marching-on-together-dublin-and-kerry-legends-will-reunite-to-remember-the-good-times-and-their-absent-friends/a766188048.html Marching on together Sunday Independent Dermot Crowe 30 March 2025 From 1974 to 1986, every final had Kerry or Dublin in it and in six of those they were the final pairing. They shared every All-Ireland going in that time save for Offaly's famous heist of 1982. The players involved in the game organised a golden jubilee reunion in 2025. References All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, 1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Finals Category:All-Ireland Senior Football Championship finals Category:GAA finals at Croke Park Category:Dublin county football team matches Category:Kerry county football team matches