1942 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Event | 1942 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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Date | 20 September 1942 | ||||||
Venue | 1943 → |
The 1942 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 55th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1942 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Match
Summary
Paddy O'Connor goaled for Dublin in the 10th minute, and five late points gave them a narrow victory, their first title in nineteen years.[1] Bobby Beggs of the Dublin team beat his former team of Galway, having won an All-Ireland medal with them in 1938 and being on the Dublin team losing to Galway in the 1934 final.[2]
Dublin's first All-Ireland football title since
This was the third of three consecutive All-Ireland football finals lost by Galway, following defeats to
With their
Details
|* = Note the same score was repeated in 1983.
References
- ^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- ^ Kerr, Rory (20 April 2015). "Harps pay fitting tribute to Bobby". Fingal Independent. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ Moran, Sean (17 September 2011). "Kerry pioneers the kings of the urban-rural frontier". The Irish Times. Irish Times Trust. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
A year later the tables had been turned and Dublin entered a barren era, the longest spell without an All-Ireland in the county's history – 19 seasons until 1942. The current team is 16 years into a similar sequence.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Moran, Seán (11 September 2019). "Remembering when Kerry kicked ahead of Dublin 78 years ago: This year will be only the third replay between the counties, and the first in Croke Park". The Irish Times. Retrieved 11 September 2019.