en 1942 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

1942 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Event	1942 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date	20 September 1942
Venue	Croke Park, Dublin
Referee	Sean Kennedy (Donegal)
Attendance	37,105
	← 1941 1943 →

The 1942 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 55th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1942 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Match

Summary

Paddy O'Connor goaled for Dublin in the 10th minute, and five late points gave them a narrow victory, their first title in nineteen years.^[1] Bobby Beggs of the Dublin team beat his former team of Galway, having won an All-Ireland medal with them in 1938 and being on the Dublin team losing to Galway in the 1934 final.^[2]

Dublin's first All-Ireland football title since 1923, brought to an end a 19-year barren spell for the county, rivalled only by their team of the late 1990s and 2000s.^[3]

This was the third of three consecutive All-Ireland football finals lost by Galway, following defeats to Kerry at the final hurdle in 1940 and 1941.^[4]

With their 1940 win, Kerry had reached 14 All-Ireland titles, drawing level with Dublin.^[5] Dublin had been in the lead since 1892. In 1941, Kerry would take the lead; Dublin's 1942 win equalled the new total, but never again did Dublin manage to surpass Kerry's total.^[5]

Details

20 September 1942
Final*

Dublin	1-10 – 1-8	Galway
T. Banks (0-6), P. O'Connor (1-1), J. Joy (0-2) & M. Fletcher (0-1).		S. Thronaton (0-4), J. Casey (1-0), M. Fallon (0-2) P. Thornton & J. Flavin (0-1).

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance: 37,105

Referee: Sean Kennedy (Donegal)

|* = Note the same score was repeated in 1983.

References

^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
^ Kerr, Rory (20 April 2015). "Harps pay fitting tribute to Bobby". Fingal Independent. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
^ Moran, Sean (17 September 2011). "Kerry pioneers the kings of the urban-rural frontier". The Irish Times. Irish Times Trust. Retrieved 17 September 2011. A year later the tables had been turned and Dublin entered a barren era, the longest spell without an All-Ireland in the county's history – 19 seasons until 1942. The current team is 16 years into a similar sequence.
^ Kenny, Tom (14 April 2011). "The men who first brought Sam to Galway". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 14 April 2011. Then, they lost three in a row, in 1940 to Kerry by 0 – 7 to 1 – 3; in 1941 to Kerry by 1 – 8 to 0 – 7; and in 1942 to Dublin by 1 – 10 to 1 – 8.
^ ^a ^b Moran, Seán (11 September 2019). "Remembering when Kerry kicked ahead of Dublin 78 years ago: This year will be only the third replay between the counties, and the first in Croke Park". The Irish Times. Retrieved 11 September 2019.

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

[2] Kerr, Rory (20 April 2015). "Harps pay fitting tribute to Bobby". Fingal Independent. Retrieved 31 May 2021.

[3] Moran, Sean (17 September 2011). "Kerry pioneers the kings of the urban-rural frontier". The Irish Times. Irish Times Trust. Retrieved 17 September 2011. A year later the tables had been turned and Dublin entered a barren era, the longest spell without an All-Ireland in the county's history – 19 seasons until 1942. The current team is 16 years into a similar sequence.

[4] Kenny, Tom (14 April 2011). "The men who first brought Sam to Galway". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 14 April 2011. Then, they lost three in a row, in 1940 to Kerry by 0 – 7 to 1 – 3; in 1941 to Kerry by 1 – 8 to 0 – 7; and in 1942 to Dublin by 1 – 10 to 1 – 8.

[kicked_ahead-5] Moran, Seán (11 September 2019). "Remembering when Kerry kicked ahead of Dublin 78 years ago: This year will be only the third replay between the counties, and the first in Croke Park". The Irish Times. Retrieved 11 September 2019.

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