1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team	Galway (3rd win)
Captain	John "Tull" Dunne. (St Grellan's, Ballinasloe)
Provincial Champions
Munster	Kerry
Leinster	Laois
Ulster	Monaghan
Connacht	Galway
Championship statistics
	← 1937 1939 →

The 1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 52nd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Galway won their third title.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Format[]

The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was run on a provincial basis as usual, with a rotation system of every 3rd season from this year onwards meaning for with the four winners from Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster advancing to the All-Ireland semi-finals. The draw for these games was as follows:

Connacht V. Ulster
Munster V. Leinster

Results[]

Connacht Senior Football Championship[]

19 June 1938
Semi-Final

Galway	3-11 – 2-3	Sligo

Tuam

17 July 1938
Final

Galway	0-8 – 0-5	Mayo
		P Flannelly (0-4, three frees) & P Moclair (0-1).

, Roscommon

Attendance: 20,000

Leinster Senior Football Championship[]

1 May 1938
Preliminary Round

Louth	2-4 – 0-3	Westmeath

Páirc Tailteann, Navan

8 May 1938
Preliminary Round

Carlow	2-5 – 2-5	Wicklow

Enniscorthy

22 May 1938
Preliminary Round

Offaly	1-7 – 2-4	Wexford

Nolan Park, Kilkenny

Referee: M Hennessy (Dublin)

5 June 1938
Preliminary Round Replay

Carlow	5-9 – 1-7	Wicklow

Naas

12 June 1938
Preliminary Round Replay

Offaly	1-9 – 1-5	Wexford

Dr. Cullen Park, Carlow

Referee: M Hennessy (Dublin)

29 May 1938
Quarter-Final

Kildare	4-7 – 3-5	Dublin
P.Geoghegan 2-0, J.Martin 1-3, M.Geraghty 0-2, P.Waters, G.Comerford 0-1 (1-0 was a forward scramble).

O'Moore Park, Portlaoise

3 July 1938
Quarter-Final

Laois	2-5 – 2-2	Louth

Croke Park, Dublin

3 July 1938
Quarter-Final

Meath	4-4 – 2-7	Carlow

Croke Park, Dublin

10 July 1938
Quarter-Final

Offaly	2-4 – 0-8	Longford

Cusack Park, Mullingar

Attendance: 8000

Referee: Seamus Burke

10 July 1938
Semi-Final

Laois	4-6 – 2-3	Meath

Croke Park, Dublin

24 July 1938
Semi-Final

Offaly	0-6 – 4-8	Kildare
		M.Geraghty, P.O'Brien, P.Geoghegan 1-1, W.Ryan 1-0, T.Mulhall 0-2, G.Comerford, C.Higgins 0-1.

Dr. Cullen Park, Carlow

Referee: C Nolan

7 August 1938
Final

Laois	2-8 – 1-3	Kildare
Chris Delaney 0-4 (0-3f), Ned Begley and Jack McDarby 1-0 each, Danny Douglas and Mick Haughney 0-2 each		Tom Mulhall 1-1, P. Geoghegan and Joe Martin (0-1f) 0-1 each

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance: 17,979

Referee: Dave Hamilton (Dublin)

Munster Senior Football Championship[]

29 May 1938
Quarter-Final

Kerry	2-6 – 0-1	Clare
Johnny Walsh (1-1), Eugene Powell (0-1), Murt Kelly (1-3) & Martin Regan (0-1).

Cusack Park, Ennis

12 June 1938
Quarter-Final

Tipperary	1-10 – 1-8	Waterford

Fraher Field, Dungarvan

Referee: D. Ryan (Kerry)

29 May 1938
Semi-Final

Cork	2-7 – 2-3	Limerick
R. Kiely (0-1), F. Healy (1-2), A. Ricken (0-1) & T. O’Reilly (1-2).

Seán Treacy Park, Tipperary

3 July 1938
Semi-Final

Kerry	2-6 – 1-3	Tipperary
Charlie O'Sullivan (0-2), Eugene Powell (0-2), Con Geaney (0-1), Tom Gega O'Connor (1-0), Martin Regan (1-0) & Sub Tim O'Leary (0-1).

Mitchelstown

Referee: T. Greaney (W)

7 August 1938
Final

Kerry	4-14 – 0-6	Cork
S. Brosnan (0-2), P. Kennedy (1-1), C. O'Sullivan (0-1), T. McAuliffe (1-1), M. Regan (0-4), M. Doyle (2-1) & T. O'Leary (0-4).		M. O’Connor & P. Harrington (0-2) each.

Clonakilty

Ulster Senior Football Championship[]

19 June 1938
Quarter-Final

Armagh	2-5 – 1-4	Antrim

Corrigan Park, Belfast

19 June 1938
Quarter-Final

Monaghan	3-3 – 0-6	Tyrone

Omagh

3 July 1938
Quarter-Final

Cavan	3-10 – 1-4	Fermanagh

Belturbet

10 July 1938
Semi-Final

Monaghan	0-7 – 0-6	Donegal

Carndonagh

17 July 1938
Semi-Final

Cavan	1-4 – 2-7	Armagh

Athletic Grounds, Armagh

Attendance: 8,000

31 July 1938
Final

Monaghan	2-5 – 2-2	Armagh

Athletic Grounds, Armagh

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship[]

14 August 1938
Semi-Final

Galway	2-10 – 2-3	Monaghan

Cusack Park, Mullingar

21 August 1936
Semi-Final

Kerry	2-6 – 2-4	Laois
Tony McAuliffe (0-2), Charlie O'Sullivan (1-1), Paddy Kennedy (0-1), Murt Kelly (1-1) & John Joe Landers (0-1).

Croke Park, Dublin

25 September 1938
Final

Galway	3-3 – 2-6	Kerry
		Sean Brosnan (0-1), Paddy Kennedy (0-1), Tony McAuliffe (0-1), John Joe Landers (1-0), Miko Doyle (0-2) & Tim O'Leary (1-1).

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance: 68,950

23 October 1938
Final Replay

Galway	2-4 – 0-7	Kerry
		Sean Brosnan (0-3), Charlie O'Sullivan (0-1) & Miko Doyle (0-3).

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance: 47,851

Referee: P. Maguire (Cavan)

Championship statistics[]

Miscellaneous[]

The Preliminary Round of the Leinster football championship saw 2 draws and replays, They were the matches between and .
Laois become the last team until Offaly (1971-1973) to complete a triple of Leinster titles.
The All Ireland semi finals become Rotation of every 3 years from this years on words between the champions of each province.
The All-Ireland final for the only time in history ends in a draw and goes to a replay for the 2nd year in a row.

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