1959 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

1959 All-Ireland Senior Football Final

Event

1959 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Kerry	Galway

3-7	1-4

Date

27 September 1959

Venue

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance

85,897

The 1959 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 72nd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1959 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Kerry won easily with goals by Dan McAuliffe (2) and Garry McMahon.^[1]

It was the third of three All-Ireland football titles won by Kerry in the 1950s.^[2]

Galway were beaten by Kerry.^[3]

References

↑ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
↑ "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent (Independent News & Media). 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
↑ Kenny, Tom (14 April 2011). "The men who first brought Sam to Galway". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 14 April 2011. In 1959, Kerry beat them 3 – 7 to 1 – 4, and in 1963 that Simon Behan goal for Dublin beat us, the score 1 – 9 to 0 – 10.

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