1919 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
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The 1919 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 32nd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1919 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Event | 1919 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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Date | 28 September 1919 | ||||||
Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
Referee | Pat Dunphy (Laois)[1] | ||||||
Attendance | 32,000 | ||||||
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Wexford were the reigning champions, having completed a first senior four-in-a-row in 1918. However, Wexford did not qualify for the 1919 final as they were knocked out in the semi-final of that year's Leinster Senior Football Championship.[2]
Kildare won an extremely one-sided final, with goals from Frank "Joyce" Conlan and Jim O'Connor.[3]
This was Galway's first appearance in an All-Ireland football final. They would not win the All-Ireland football title until 1925, having also been beaten in the final of 1922.[4]