Date 30 September 1928 Attendance 24,700 | Venue Croke Park, Dublin | |
Event 1928 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||
The 1928 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 41st All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1928 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Cavan claimed that Paddy Loughlin's late goal was thrown into the net. Patsy Devlin hit a goal back to equalise, but Bill Mangan scored a point to win the Sam Maguire Cup for the first time.
1928 was the first year in which the Sam Maguire Cup was awarded to the All-Ireland football winner; the cup is still awarded to the winning team.
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1928 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA