1914 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
 |
|||||||
| Event | 1914 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||||
| Date | 1 November 1914 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | Harry Boland (Dublin) | ||||||
| Attendance | 13,000 | ||||||
|
|||||||
| Date | 29 November 1914 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Attendance | 20,000 | ||||||
| Weather | Windy | ||||||
The 1914 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 27th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1914 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Wexford led 2-0 to 0-1 at half-time, but Kerry fought back to score five points in the second half - Dick Fitzgerald scoring a point in the last minute. The replay took place on an extremely windy day; Wexford had the breeze in the first half and scored six points without reply, while Kerry scored 2-3 without reply in the second half to take their second title in a row. More than 26 special trains brought spectators to the match from across Ireland.Harry Boland was the referee; he was later a close associate of Michael Collins during the Irish War of Independence, and fought and died on the anti-treaty side during the Irish Civil War.
...
Wikipedia