1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
Event 1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date 25 September 1938
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance 68,950
1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Final Replay
Date 23 October 1938
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance 47,851

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

  1. High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  2. 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.