1935 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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.

1935 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Event1935 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date22 September 1935
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
RefereeStephen Jordan (Galway)
Attendance50,380
1934
1936
County Donegal Railways poster advertising special trains for the game

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

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  1. ^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.