1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Final

Event

1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Offaly	Galway

1-14	2-8

Date

26 September 1971

Venue

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance

70,789

The 1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 84th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

A Murt Connor goal gave Offaly their first title.^[1]

Galway were appearing in their first final since the three-in-a-row side of the 1960s.^[2]

References

↑ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
↑ Kenny, Tom (14 April 2011). "The men who first brought Sam to Galway". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 14 April 2011. Then came the three in a row team who in 1964 beat Kerry by 0 – 15 to 0 – 10; in 1965 it was Galway 0 – 12 to Kerry 0 – 9, and in 1966 Galway 1 – 10 to Meath’s 0 – 7. Offaly beat us in 1971 by 1 – 14 to 2 – 8, and in 1973, Cork beat us by 3 – 17 to 2 – 13.

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