1927 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

1927 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

Event	1927 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Kildare Kerry 0–5 0–3
Date	25 September 1927
Venue	Croke Park, Dublin
Referee	T Shevlin (Roscommon)
Attendance	36,529
Weather	Sunny

The 1927 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 40th 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.

Match

Summary

The match was a repeat of the 1926 final which Kerry won by 1-4 to 0-4. Kerry opened the scoring and led by 0-3 with points from Landers, Baily and Ryan before Keogh scored Kildare's first point. At half time the score was 0-3 to 0-1 in favour of Kerry. Kerry failed to score in the second half, while Kildare added scores from Doyle with a free, a second score from Keogh and a point each for Curtis and Martin.

Details

26 September 1927
Final

Kildare	0-5 - 0-3	Kerry
Keogh (0-2), Doyle (0-1f), Curtis (0-1), Martin (0-1)		Landers (0-1), Baily (0-1), Ryan (0-1)

Croke Park, Dublin

Referee: T Shevlin (Roscommon)

1 M Walsh 2 M Buckley (c) 3 G Fitzpatrick 4 F Malone 5 J Higgins 6 J Hayes 7 J Loughlin 8 B Gannon 9 J Curtis 10 P Martin 11 P Doyle 12 B Mangan 13 P Loughlin 14 T Keogh 15 M Goff

1 J O'Riordan 2 D O'Connor 3 J Barrett 4 J Walsh 5 D O'Connell 6 P O'Sullivan 7 J Slattery 8 C Brosnan 9 R Stack 10 J Ryan 11 E Fitzgerald 12 T Mahony 13 J Baily 14 JJ Landers 15 JJ Sheehy

External links

• "Kildare 1927 Champions", a British Pathé newsreel of the game