1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Final Replay
| Galway |
Kerry |
 |
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| 2-4 |
0-7 |
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| Date |
23 October 1938 |
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| Venue |
Croke Park, Dublin |
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| Attendance |
47,851 |
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The 1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 51st All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Kerry supporters complained that the final whistle had gone too early in the first match, disallowing a late John Joe Landers winner. When the replay ended before Kerry could take a free which could have given an equalising goal, angry fans invaded the pitch. A loudspeaker appeal allowed the game to continue, and Galway won anyway.[1]
Bobby Beggs lined out for the winning Galway team that day; he had earlier been on the Dublin side defeated by Galway in the final of 1934.[2]
References
- ↑ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- ↑ Kenny, Tom (14 April 2011). "The men who first brought Sam to Galway". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
Bobby Beggs was on the defeated Dublin team [in 1934] but in 1938 he was on the Galway team that triumphed by beating Kerry by 2 – 4 to 0 – 7.