1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
The 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 87th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
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| Event | 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 22 September 1974 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Attendance | 71,898 | ||||||
Galway led 1–4 to 0–5 at half-time with a Michael Rooney goal. Paddy Cullen saved a penalty kick (placed 17th in RTÉ's 2005 series Top 20 GAA Moments) and Kevin Heffernan's Dublin staged a comeback to win by five points.[1] The penalty save (Liam Sammon took it) occurred at the Canal End of Croke Park.[2]
It was Galway's second consecutive All-Ireland football final; they lost to Cork in 1973.[3]
References
- High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- "Five other All-Ireland final Canal End penalty 'misses'". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 23 September 2005.
- Kenny, Tom (14 April 2011). "The men who first brought Sam to Galway". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
Offaly beat us in 1971 by 1 – 14 to 2 – 8, and in 1973, Cork beat us by 3 – 17 to 2 – 13. In 1974, the final score was Dublin 0 – 14 to Galway's 1 – 6, and in 1983 Dublin repeated the victory by 1 – 10 to our 1 – 8.
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