The 1927 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 40th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1927 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Background This was the second of four consecutive appearances in the decider for Kildare.
Match This year's final was played on 25 September.
Summary The match was a repeat of the 1926 final which Kerry won by 1–4 to 0–4. Kerry opened the scoring and led by 0–3, with points from Landers, Baily and Ryan before Keogh scored Kildare's first point. At half time the score was 0–3 to 0–1 in favour of Kerry. Kerry failed to score in the second half, while Kildare added scores from Doyle with a free, a second score from Keogh and a point each for Curtis and Martin.
Details
1 M Walsh 2 M Buckley (c)3 G Fitzpatrick 4 F Malone 5 J Higgins 6 J Hayes 7 J Loughlin 8 B Gannon 9 J Curtis 10 P Martin 11 P Doyle 12 B Mangan 13 P Loughlin 14 T Keogh 15 M Goff 1 J O'Riordan 2 D O'Connor 3 J Barrett 4 J Walsh 5 D O'Connell 6 P O'Sullivan 7 J Slattery 8 C Brosnan 9 R Stack 10 J Ryan 11 E Fitzgerald 12 T Mahony 13 J Baily 14 JJ Landers 15 JJ Sheehy
References
External links "Kildare 1927 Champions", a British Pathé newsreel of the game