1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Final Replay
Date	23 October 1938
Venue	Croke Park, Dublin
Referee	P. Maguire
Attendance	47,851

1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
Event	1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date	25 September 1938
Venue	Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance	68,950

The 1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 51st All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Kerry supporters complained that the final whistle had gone too early in the first match, disallowing a late John Joe Landers winner. When the replay ended before Kerry could take a free which could have given an equalising goal, angry fans invaded the pitch. A loudspeaker appeal allowed the game to continue, and Galway won anyway.[1]

Bobby Beggs lined out for the winning Galway team that day; he had earlier been on the Dublin side defeated by Galway in the final of 1934.[2]

References

High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
Kenny, Tom (14 April 2011). "The men who first brought Sam to Galway". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 14 April 2011. Bobby Beggs was on the defeated Dublin team [in 1934] but in 1938 he was on the Galway team that triumphed by beating Kerry by 2 – 4 to 0 – 7.

External links

"All Ireland Gaelic Football Final (1938)" on YouTube, a British Pathé newsreel of the game

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[1] High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.

[2] Kenny, Tom (14 April 2011). "The men who first brought Sam to Galway". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 14 April 2011. Bobby Beggs was on the defeated Dublin team [in 1934] but in 1938 he was on the Galway team that triumphed by beating Kerry by 2 – 4 to 0 – 7.