The 1927 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the fortieth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1927 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
| Event | 1927 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 25 September 1927 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | T Shevlin (Roscommon) | ||||||
| Attendance | 36,529 | ||||||
| Weather | sunny | ||||||
Kerry led 0–3 to 0-0 early on, but Kildare won with points by Paul Keogh, Paul Doyle (2), Bill "Squires" Gannon and Joe Curtis. Republican leader John Joe Sheehy hit the post late on, and Kildare held on for victory.[1]
References
edit- ^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
External links
edit- "Kildare 1927 Champions", a British Pathé newsreel of the game