1922 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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1922 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
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Dublin, champions
Event 1922 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Dublin Galway
Dublin colours.PNG Galway colours.PNG
0–60–4
Date7 October 1923
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Referee Pat Dunphy (Laois) [1]
Attendance11,792
Weatherdull, drizzle, wind
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The 1922 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 35th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1922 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Contents

Dublin defeated Galway.

Sligo had qualified, but were ejected in spectacular circumstances, and also stripped of their Connacht SFC title (given instead to Galway). [2]

Pre-match

This was Galway's second appearance in an All-Ireland SFC final following their first appearance (a loss to Kildare) in 1919. They would not win the All-Ireland SFC title until 1925. [3]

Galway were lucky to have even been there in the first place. Sligo had won that year's Connacht Senior Football Championship, defeating Roscommon, Mayo and Galway, before disposing of Tipperary in their subsequent All-Ireland SFC semi-final meeting. However, "a flimsy technicality" led to a replay of the Galway versus Sligo Connacht SFC final, which Sligo lost. Galway had then become Connacht SFC winner, thus being elevated into the All-Ireland SFC final at Sligo's expense. Sligo were left with ... nothing. [2]

Match

Summary

Dublin won by six points to four, Paddy Carey, their captain, scoring the final point from a 50-yard kick. [4]

It was the second of three All-Ireland SFC titles won by Dublin in the 1920s, which made them joint "team of the decade" with Kerry, also winner of three. [5]

Details

Galway, losing team Galway gaa football team 1922.jpg
Galway, losing team
7 October 1923
Final		 Dublin 0–6 – 0–4 Galway Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 11,792
Referee: Pat Dunphy (Laois)

Dublin

References

  1. ↑ O'Connell, Cian (9 December 2016). "1916 All Ireland referees remembered".
  2. 1 2 Sweeney, Eamonn (8 July 2007). "About time Lady Luck gave Sligo the time of day". Sunday Independent. Retrieved 8 July 2007.
  3. ↑ Kenny, Tom (14 April 2011). "The men who first brought Sam to Galway". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
  4. ↑ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  5. ↑ "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
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