1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Event1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Date24 September 1972
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
RefereeFintan Tierney (Cavan)[1][2]
Attendance72,032
1971
1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final replay
Date15 October 1972
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
RefereePaddy Devlin (Tyrone)[3]
Attendance66,136
1973

The 1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 85th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Match 1

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Summary

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Mick O'Dwyer brought the sides level to force a replay.[4]

Details

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Final
Offaly1–13 – 1–13Kerry
T McTague 0–6, J Cooney 1–2, P Fenning 0–2, J Smith 0–2, K Kilmurray 0–1 B Lynch 1–7, M O'Dwyer 0–5, M O'Connell 0–1
Attendance: 72,032
Referee: Fintan Tierney (Cavan)

Match 2

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Summary

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Paddy Devlin from Tyrone, who later took charge of the 1974 final, oversaw the replay.[3]

Offaly won the replay.

Tony McTague scored sixteen points in the two games.

Paddy Fenning scored Offaly's goal.[5]

This was Kerry's biggest ever defeat in an All-Ireland final.[5]

It was also the last time Micks O'Connell and O'Dwyer played at Croke Park.[6]

Details

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Final replay
Offaly1–19 – 0–13Kerry
T McTague 0–10, P Fenning 1–1, M Connor 0–2, S Darby, 0–2, W Bryan 0–3, K Kilmurray 0–1 M O'Connell 0–7, B Lynch 0–2, L Higgins 0–2, M O'Dwyer 0–2
Attendance: 66,136
Referee: Paddy Devlin (Tyrone)[3]

Offaly (is this the replay or the drawn game?)

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Subs used
17 M. Connor for S. Cooney
22 N. Clavin for E. Mulligan
18 M. Wright for L. Coughlan
Subs not used
16 N. Kinnarney
19 L. Hanlon
20 J. Gunning
21 S. Kilroy

Kerry

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Subs used in drawn game and replay
17 D. Crowley for S. Mac Gearailt
16 P. Griffin for M. Gleeson
18 J. Walsh for B. Lynch
Subs not used
19 J. Saunders
20 M. O'Sullivan
21 G. Power
22 J. Coffey
Trainer
J. Culloty

References

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