The 1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 46th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1933 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Pre-match Kerry were the reigning champions, having completed the second senior four-in-a-row in 1932, following the Wexford team of 1915–1918. However, Kerry did not qualify for the 1933 decider, having been knocked out of the competition at the semi-final stage.
Match This year's final was played on 24 September.
Summary Cavan became the first Ulster county to win an All-Ireland SFC, with first-half goals by Louis Blessing, and "Son" Magee. A record crowd attended the game, with about 5,000 more locked out.High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
Galway may have lost, but they were regarded as a force for the future; this proved true as the following year they won their second All-Ireland SFC title and took the Sam Maguire Cup back to the west for the first time.
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Cavan Louis Blessing Vincent McGovern Willie Connolly Willie Young Terry Coyle M. Denneny Tom O'Reilly Hughie O'Reilly Jack Smallhorn Donal Morgan Packie Phair Jim Smith (c) Patsy Lynch Patsy Devlin M.J. McGee
Galway Michael Donnellan (c) Frank Fox Brendan Nestor Michael Brennan Hugo Carey Mick Connaire John Dunne K. Kelleher Martin Kelly Tadhg McCarthy F. Burke Mick Higgins Dinny O'Sullivan Tommy Hughes Dermot Mitchell
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