1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
| Event | 1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 7 September 1941 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Attendance | 45,512 | ||||||
The 1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 54th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Kerry completed a three-in-a-row with a goal by Tom "Gega" O'Connor. The attendance was affected by restrictions under "The Emergency", with a thousand fans travelling by peat-fueled train, and two Kerrymen cycling a tandem bicycle from Killarney to Dublin.[1]
It was the second of three All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1940s.[2]
It was also the second of three consecutive All-Ireland football finals lost by Galway.[3]
References
- ↑ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- ↑ "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent (Independent News & Media). 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
- ↑ Kenny, Tom (14 April 2011). "The men who first brought Sam to Galway". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
Then, they lost three in a row, in 1940 to Kerry by 0 – 7 to 1 – 3; in 1941 to Kerry by 1 – 8 to 0 – 7; and in 1942 to Dublin by 1 – 10 to 1 – 8.