1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
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Event 1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date28 September 1975
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Referee John Moloney (Tipperary)
Attendance66,346
1974
1976

The 1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 88th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Contents

Pre-match

On the train to Dublin, Kerry manager Mick O'Dwyer and his players spoke to journalists. Jim Farrelly quoted O'Dwyer in the Sunday Independent as advocating a marriage ban for his players. "Marriage puts players back in their game". [1] Kerry player Jimmy Deenihan was photographed during the train trip alongside his sister Patricia and said to Farrelly: "Four of us [Kerry players] are PE teachers. Saying 'no' to girls and drink and high Kerry social life has been hard!". [1]

Match

Summary

John Egan and substitute Ger O'Driscoll scored goals for a surprise win. [2]

Yet it was no surprise. The train trip (above) revealed the inaccuracy of the callow reputation in which Kerry often indulged. And ahead of the game Dublin were 4/5, Kerry 5/4 in the betting odds. [1]

This was the second of four All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1970s. [3] [4]

Séamus McCarthy, aged 21 and later a Tipperary footballer, and his 50-year-old father Eddie McCarthy, became the first father-and-son pair to umpire at an All-Ireland final, doing so at the Hill 16 end of Croke Park. [5]

Details

28 September 1975
Final
Kerry 2–12 – 0–11 Dublin Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 66,346
Referee: John Moloney (Tipperary)
M Sheehy 0–4, G O'Driscoll 1–0, J Egan 1–0, P Spillane 0–3, B Lynch 0–3, D Moran 0–2J Keaveney 0–6, P Gogarty 0–2, B Doyle 0–1, B Pocock 0–1, B Mullins 0–1

Kerry =

Sub used
17 G. O'Driscoll for M. O'Sullivan
Subs not used
16 J. Bunyan
18 J. Long
19 B. O'Shea
20 D O'Sullivan
21 J. Walsh
Manager
M. O'Dwyer

Dublin =

Subs used
17 B. Doyle for B. Brogan
18 P. O'Neill for J. McCarthy
19 B. Pocock for P. Reilly
Subs not used
16 L. Deegan
19 S. Rooney
20 K. Synnott
21 J. Brogan
22 F. Ryder
23 L. Egan
24 M. Noctor
Manager
K. Heffernan

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Hogan, Vincent (31 August 2019). "Kingdom's appetite for mischief can still spook the finest Dublin has to offer". Irish Independent . Independent News & Media . Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  2. High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  3. "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent . Independent News & Media. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
  4. "Flashback: 1975 All Ireland SFC Final - Kerry v Dublin". GAA.ie. 30 March 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  5. "Day has arrived for Tipperary to surrender to the living moment". Sunday Independent . 22 November 2020.