1927 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

1927 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

Event	1927 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Kildare Kerry 0–5 0–3
Date	25 September 1927
Venue	Croke Park, Dublin
Referee	T Shevlin (Roscommon)
Attendance	36,529
Weather	Sunny
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The 1927 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 40th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1927 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Match

Summary

The match was a repeat of the 1926 final which Kerry won by 1-4 to 0-4. Kerry opened the scoring and led by 0-3 with points from Landers, Baily and Ryan before Keogh scored Kildare's first point. At half time the score was 0-3 to 0-1 in favour of Kerry. Kerry failed to score in the second half, while Kildare added scores from Doyle with a free, a second score from Keogh and a point each for Curtis and Martin. ^{[1] [2]}

Details

26 September 1927
Final

Kildare	0-5 - 0-3	Kerry
Keogh (0-2), Doyle (0-1f), Curtis (0-1), Martin (0-1)		Landers (0-1), Baily (0-1), Ryan (0-1)

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance: 36,529

Referee: T Shevlin (Roscommon)

1 M Walsh 2 M Buckley (c) 3 G Fitzpatrick 4 F Malone 5 J Higgins 6 J Hayes 7 J Loughlin 8 B Gannon 9 J Curtis 10 P Martin 11 P Doyle 12 B Mangan 13 P Loughlin 14 T Keogh 15 M Goff	1 J O'Riordan 2 D O'Connor 3 J Barrett 4 J Walsh 5 D O'Connell 6 P O'Sullivan 7 J Slattery 8 C Brosnan 9 R Stack 10 J Ryan 11 E Fitzgerald 12 T Mahony 13 J Baily 14 JJ Landers 15 JJ Sheehy

References

1. "Kildare defeat Kerry". Belfast Telegraph. 26 September 1927. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
2. The Complete Handbook of GAELIC GAMES (PDF). DBA. 2021. p. 160.

External links

• "Kildare 1927 Champions", a British Pathé newsreel of the game