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1936 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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Field	Value
title	1936 All-Ireland
Senior Football Championship final
image	1936 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final p.jpg
image_size	150
event	1936 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
team1	Mayo
team1association	[[File:Colours of Mayo.svg	40px]]
team1score	4–11
(23)
team2	Laois
team2association	[[File:Colours of Laois.svg	40px]]
team2score	0–5
(5)
date	27 September 1936
stadium	Croke Park
city	Dublin
referee	Sean McCarthy (Kerry)
attendance	50,168
weather	Sun
previous	1935
next	1937

Senior Football Championship final (23) (5) The 1936 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 49th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1936 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Match

Summary

Séamus O'Malley, a native of Lavalley, Ballinrobe, was captain of the victorious team.

Henry Kenny, father of the future Taoiseach Enda Kenny, was on the winning Mayo team.

Paddy Munnelly scored a hat-trick as Mayo coasted to an easy victory. Laois's Bill Delaney played with two broken bones in his foot.

This was Mayo's first All-Ireland SFC title. Two more would follow by mid-century.

Details

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Mayo

1 Tom Burke
2 Jim McGowan
3 Paddy Quinn
4 Patrick Kelly
5 Timmy Regan
6 Séamus O'Malley (c)
7 George Ormsby
8 Patsy Flannelly
9 Henry Kenny
10 Jackie Carney
11 Peter Laffey
12 Tommy Grier
13 Josie Munnelly
14 Paddy Moclair
15 Paddy Munnelly

;Subs not used : 16 Patrick Collins : 17 M. Joyce : 18 Paddy Brett : 19 Tommy McNicholas : 20 Gerald Courell : 21 M. O'Malley : 22 R. Winters : 23 Billy Mongey

References

"1936 All Ireland Senior Football Final - Laois v Mayo".
''High Ball'' magazine, issue #6, 1998.
"Mayo win their first All-Ireland - eir GAA".

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