1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final match programme.jpg
Event 1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Kerry Roscommon
Gort GAA colours.png Tipperary colours.PNG
2–4
(10)		1–7
(10)
Date6 October 1946
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Referee Bill Delaney (Laois)
Attendance75,771
← 1945
1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final replay
1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final R.jpg
Kerry Roscommon
Gort GAA colours.png Tipperary colours.PNG
2–8
(14)		0–10
(10)
Date27 October 1946
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Referee Paddy Mythen (Wexford)
Attendance65,661
1947 →

The 1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 59th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Contents

The game was originally set for 22 September, but was delayed for two weeks as part of the "Save the Harvest" campaign. (see: Winter of 1946–47)

Matches

Summary

Roscommon had a six-point lead with three minutes left, but Kerry made an amazing comeback with goals by Paddy Burke and Tom "Gega" O'Connor. Burke and O'Connor also scored late goals in the replay. [1]

It was the third of three All-Ireland SFC titles won by Kerry in the 1940s. [2]

Details

Kerry =

Played in drawn game
G. Cremin
W. O'Donnell
Subs used in drawn game
E. Dowling for P. Kennedy
B. Kelleher for J. Lyne
Subs used in replay
G. Cremin for J. Falvey

Roscommon (is this the replay or the drawn game?) =

Sub used
D. McDermott for B. Lynch

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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.
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