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
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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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