1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
The 1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 46th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Pre-match
Kerry were the reigning champions, having completed the second senior four-in-a-row in 1932, following the Wexford team of 1915–1918. However, Kerry did not qualify for the 1933 decider, having been knocked out of the competition at the semi-final stage.Match
This year's final was played on 24 September.Summary
Cavan became the first Ulster county to win an All-Ireland SFC, with first-half goals by Louis Blessing and "Son" Magee. A record crowd attended the game, with about 5,000 more locked out.Galway may have lost but they were regarded as a force for the future; this proved true as the following year they won their second All-Ireland SFC title and took the Sam Maguire Cup back to the west for the first time.
Details
Cavan
- Louis Blessing
- Vincent McGovern
- Willie Connolly
- Willie Young
- Terry Coyle
- M. Denneny
- Tom O'Reilly
- Hughie O'Reilly
- Jack Smallhorn
- Donal Morgan
- Packie Phair
- Jim Smith
- Patsy Lynch
- Patsy Devlin
- M.J. McGee
Galway
- Michael Donnellan
- Frank Fox
- Brendan Nestor
- Michael Brennan
- Hugo Carey
- Mick Connaire
- John Dunne
- K. Kelleher
- Martin Kelly
- Tadhg McCarthy
- F. Burke
- Mick Higgins
- Dinny O'Sullivan
- Tommy Hughes
- Dermot Mitchell