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1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Football championship

Field	Value
year	1938
team	Galway
titles	3rd
captain	John "Tull" Dunne. (St Grellan's, Ballinasloe)
team2	Kerry
captain2	Bill Kinnerk
leinster	Laois
munster	Kerry
ulster	Monaghan
connacht	Galway
previous	[1937](1937-all-ireland-senior-football-championship)
next	[1939](1939-all-ireland-senior-football-championship)

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 ending Kerry's year.

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]]

Semi-Final

Final

[[Leinster Senior Football Championship]]

Preliminary Round

Preliminary Round Replay

Quarter-Final

Semi-Final

Final

[[Munster Senior Football Championship]]

Quarter-Final

Semi-Final

Final

[[Ulster Senior Football Championship]]

Quarter-Final

Semi-Final

Final

[[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship]]

Semi-Final

Main article: 1938 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

Final

Final Replay

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

The Preliminary Round of the Leinster football championship saw 2 draws and replays, They were the matches between Carlow vs Wicklow and Offaly vs Wexford.
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.

Roll of Honour

Dublin – 14 (1923)
Kerry – 12 (1937)
Wexford – 5 (1918)
Kildare – 4 (1928)
Tipperary – 4 (1920)
Galway – 3 (1938)
Cavan – 2 (1935)
Limerick – 2 (1896)
Cork – 2 (1911)
Louth – 2 (1912)
Mayo – 1 (1936)

References

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