The 1935 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 48th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1935 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
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| Event | 1935 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 22 September 1935 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | Stephen Jordan (Galway) | ||||||
| Attendance | 50,380 | ||||||
Cavan won by four points after Kildare centre-back Jack Higgins was injured. The Lilywhites (Kildare) would not reach the All-Ireland final again for another sixty-three years.[1] They also lost that final, this time to Galway, in 1998.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- ^ Foley, Cliona (31 August 1998). "Kildare celebrate famous victory". Irish Independent.
Unimaginable hysteria greeted Kildare's victory which now pits them against Galway on September 27 in their first All-Ireland final since 1935.
- ^ McGee, Eugene (31 August 1998). "Kerry left to lament Karl move". Irish Independent.
Mick O'Dwyer used his knowledge of his countymen to provide Kildare with a blueprint for Kerry's destruction.