Event | 1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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Date | 24 September 1972 | ||||||
Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
Referee | Fintan Tierney (Cavan)[1][2] | ||||||
Attendance | 72,032 | ||||||
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Date | 15 October 1972 | ||||||
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Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
Referee | Paddy Devlin (Tyrone)[3] | ||||||
Attendance | 66,136 | ||||||
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.
Mick O'Dwyer brought the sides level to force a replay.[4]
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]
Offaly | 1-19 - 0-13 | Kerry |
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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. |
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