1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Galway (3rd win)
Captain John "Tull" Dunne. (St Grellan's, Ballinasloe)
Provincial Champions
Munster Kerry
Leinster Laois
Ulster Monaghan
Connacht Galway
Championship statistics
1937
1939

The 1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 52nd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Galway won their third title.[1][2][3]

Format

The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual, with a rotation of every 3rd season from this year, with the four winners from Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster advancing to the All-Ireland semi-finals. The draw for these games was as follows:

  • Connacht V. Ulster
  • Munster V. Leinster

Results

Connacht Championship

Galway 3-11 – 2-3 Sligo

Galway 0-8 – 0-5 Mayo
St. Coman's Park, Roscommon
Attendance: 20,000

Leinster Championship

Louth 2-4 – 0-3 Westmeath

Carlow 2-5 – 2-5 Wicklow

Offaly 1-7 – 2-4 Wexford
Referee: M Hennessy

Carlow 5-9 – 1-7 Wicklow

Offaly 1-9 – 1-5 Wexford
Referee: M Hennessy

Kildare 4-7 – 3-5 Dublin

Laois 2-5 – 2-2 Louth

Meath 4-4 – 2-7 Carlow

Offaly 2-4 – 0-8 Longford
Attendance: 8000
Referee: Seamus Burke

Laois 4-6 – 2-3 Meath

Offaly 0-6 – 4-8 Kildare
Referee: C Nolan

Laois 2-8 – 1-3 Kildare

Munster Championship

Kerry 2-6 – 0-1 Clare

Tipperary 1-10 – 1-8 Waterford
Referee: D. Ryan (Kerry)

Cork 2-7 – 2-3 Limerick

Kerry 2-6 – 1-3 Tipperary
Referee: T. Greaney (W)

Kerry 4-14 – 0-6 Cork

Ulster Championship

Armagh 2-5 – 1-4 Antrim

Monaghan 3-3 – 0-6 Tyrone

Cavan 3-10 – 1-4 Fermanagh

Monaghan 0-7 – 0-6 Donegal

Cavan 1-4 – 2-7 Armagh
Attendance: 8,000

Monaghan 2-5 – 2-2 Armagh

All-Ireland Championship

Galway 2-10 – 2-3 Monaghan

Kerry 2-6 – 2-4 Laois

Galway 3-3 – 2-6 Kerry
Attendance: 68,950

Galway 2-4 – 0-7 Kerry
Attendance: 47,851
Referee: P. Maguire

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • The Preliminary Round of the Leinster football championship saw 2 draws and replays, They were the matches between Carlow vs Wicklow and Offaly vs Wexford.
  • Laois become the last team until Offaly (1971-1973) to complete a triple of Leinster titles.
  • The All Ireland semi finals become Rotation of every 3 years from this years on words between the champions of each province.
  • The All-Ireland final for the only time in history ends in a draw and goes to a replay for the 2nd year in a row.

References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
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