1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Event | 1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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Date | 24 September 1939 | ||||||
Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
Attendance | 46,828 | ||||||
The 1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 52nd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1939 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Dan Spring (later TD and father of Tánaiste Dick Spring) scored both Kerry goals. Meath rued their missed chances - they shot 11 wides.[1]
It was the fifth of five All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1930s.[2]
This was the first Championship meeting of Kerry and Meath.
References
- ↑ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- ↑ "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent (Independent News & Media). 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
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