1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final explained

1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Event:1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Team1score:2-4
(10)
Team2score:1-7
(10)
Date:6 October 1946
Stadium:Croke Park
City:Dublin
Referee:Bill Delaney (Laois)
Attendance:75,771
Previous:1945
1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final replay
Team1score:2-8
(14)
Team2score:0-10
(10)
Date:27 October 1946
Stadium:Croke Park
City:Dublin
Referee:Paddy Mythen (Wexford)
Attendance:65,661
Next:1947

The 1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 59th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1946 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

The game was originally set for 22 September, but was delayed for two weeks as part of the "Save the Harvest" campaign. (see: Winter of 1946–47)

Roscommon had a six-point lead with three minutes left, but Kerry made an amazing comeback with goals by Paddy Burke and Tom "Gega" O Connor. Burke and O'Connor also scored late goals in the replay.[1]

It was the third of three All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1940s.[2]

Notes and References

  1. High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  2. News: Kerry on honour roll. Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 14 September 2009. 14 September 2009.