1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
Event 1941 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
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

  1. High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  2. "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent (Independent News & Media). 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
  3. 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.