1925 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Event | 1925 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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Date | 10 January 1926 | ||||||
Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
The 1925 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 38th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1925 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Pre-match
This All-Ireland final was the last game of a second championship played in lieu of the original, in which Galway were made champions after Kerry and Cavan were disqualified.[1]
Match summary
Galway's first ever All-Ireland football title, it followed two previous losing appearances in the final (a loss to Kildare in 1919 and a loss to Dublin in 1922).[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.
External links
- "Kerry's Victory (1925)" on YouTube, a British Pathé newsreel of the game
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