| Event | All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 1947 | ||||||
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| Date | 14 September 1947 | ||||||
| Venue | Polo Grounds, New York City | ||||||
| Attendance | 34,491 | ||||||
| Weather | Hot | ||||||
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The 1947 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the sixtieth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1947 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
For the first and only time, the final was played outside of Ireland, at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan, New York City, to cater for the large Irish-American community there. Cavan travelled by air and Kerry by sea; the Ulster team credited their victory partially to their shorter time spent travelling. After a slow start, Cavan fought back to lead 2-5 to 2-4 at the break and went on to win by four points. Peter Donahue scored eight points from frees and was called "the Babe Ruth of Gaelic football" in the New York press. Michael O'Hehir broadcast radio commentary back across the Atlantic Ocean.[1][2]