1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

Football match

1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Final

Event

1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Dublin	Galway

0–14 (14)	1–6 (9)

Date

22 September 1974

Venue

Croke Park, Dublin

Referee

Paddy Devlin (Tyrone)^[1]

Attendance

71,898

← 1973

1975 →

The 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 87th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Galway led 1–4 to 0–5 at half-time with a Michael Rooney goal. Paddy Cullen saved a penalty kick (placed 17th in RTÉ's 2005 series Top 20 GAA Moments) and Kevin Heffernan's Dublin staged a comeback to win by five points.^[2] The penalty save (Liam Sammon took it) occurred at the Canal End of Croke Park.^[3]

It was Galway's second consecutive All-Ireland football final; they lost to Cork in 1973.^[4]

Paddy Devlin, who had previously taken charge of the 1972 replay, was the last Tyrone man to referee an All-Ireland SFC final until Sean Hurson took charge of the 2022 final.^[1]

Match details

22 Sep 1974 Final	Dublin	0–14 – 1–6	Galway	Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 71,898 Referee: Paddy Devlin (Tyrone)

Dublin

Galway

References

^ ^a ^b "An Galbhaile Cumann na Piarsaigh Clubman Sean Hurson to Referee 2022 All Ireland Football Final". 13 July 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
^ "Five other All-Ireland final Canal End penalty 'misses'". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 23 September 2005.
^ Kenny, Tom (14 April 2011). "The men who first brought Sam to Galway". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 14 April 2011. Offaly beat us in 1971 by 1 – 14 to 2 – 8, and in 1973, Cork beat us by 3 – 17 to 2 – 13. In 1974, the final score was Dublin 0 – 14 to Galway's 1 – 6, and in 1983 Dublin repeated the victory by 1 – 10 to our 1 – 8.

External links

All-Ireland Football Final, 1974: Dublin V Galway on YouTube

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Pre-1928

Seasons	1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927
Finals	1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927

Beginning of
Sam Maguire

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80-minute
experiment

Seasons	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974
Finals	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974

Post-experiment

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Qualifiers and
quarter-finals era

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Associated competitions

Provincial Championships
Tailteann Cup
Tommy Murphy Cup (formerly)
Minor Championship (final formerly held on same day)

Statistics and awards

Dublin county football team matches

All-Ireland SFC Finals

Pre-1928	1891 1892 1894 1896 1897 1898 1899 1901 1902 1904 1906 1907 1908 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924
Post-Sam Maguire	1934 1955 1958 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1983 1984 1985 1992 1994 1995
Qualifiers and quarter-finals era	2011 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2023

Other matches

Battle of Omagh (2006)
All-Ireland SFC semi-final v Donegal (2011)
Jim Gavin's only championship defeat as manager (2014)

v t e Galway county football team matches
All-Ireland SFC Finals	1919 1922 1925 1933 1934 1938 1940 1941 1942 1956 1959 1963 1964 1965 1966 1971 1973 1974 1983 1998 2000 2001 2022
Other matches	Armagh 3–18 – 2–21 Galway (2022)