1915 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final explained

1915 All-Ireland
Senior Football Championship final
Event:1915 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Team1score:2–4
(10)
Team2score:2–1
(7)
Date:7 November 1915
Stadium:Croke Park
City:Dublin
Referee:Pat Dunphy (Laois)[1]
Attendance:27,000
Weather:fine
Previous:1914
Next:1916

The 1915 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 28th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1915 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Wexford won by three points; their goals were scored by Jim and Aidan Byrne, while Dick Fitzgerald and Denis Doyle got Kerry's goals.[2]

It was the first of four consecutive All-Ireland football titles won by Wexford between 1915 and 1918.[3]

Seán O'Kennedy, whose brother Gus played at corner-forward, captained Wexford.

Match details

Notes and References

  1. News: 1916 All Ireland referees remembered. Cian. O'Connell. 9 December 2016.
  2. High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  3. News: Kerry on honour roll. Irish Independent. 14 September 2009. 14 September 2009.