1940 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

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1940 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
1940 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.jpg
Event 1940 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date 22 September 1940
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance 60,821
1939
1941

The 1940 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 53rd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1940 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Jimmy Duggan scored a goal for Galway just before half-time, but Kerry hit four points in the second half to secure a narrow victory. The game was plagued by fouls, sixty-two frees being awarded in all.[1]

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

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

References

  1. High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
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