The 1962 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 75th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1962 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
This marked the first occasion on which the final was televised.
Pre-match Roscommon played Sligo in the 1962 Connacht SFC final and were behind for much of the match. Sligo were blighted by a sudden string of injuries, missed a '50 while two points ahead in the final minute, and then gifted soon-to-be All-Ireland SFC finalists Roscommon a goal, allowing them to progress at Sligo's expense in what newspaper columnist Eamonn Sweeney described as "one of the great football tragedies in Connacht".
Match This year's final was played on 23 September.
Summary Garry McMahon scored a goal for Kerry after 35 seconds and Kerry hit a point quickly after, and victory was never in doubt.High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998. McMahon's goal was the fastest in the history of All-Ireland SFC finals. Until Garristown man Dean Rock scored for Dublin against Mayo in the 2020 final.
Details
Kerry 1 J. Culloty 2 S. Murphy 3 N. Sheehy 4 T. Lyons 5 S. Óg Sheehy (c) 6 N. Lucey 7 M. O'Dwyer 8 M. O'Connell 9 J. Lucey 10 D. McAuliffe 11 T. O'Sullivan 12 J. O'Riordan 13 G. McMahon 14 T. Long 15 P. Sheehy
Subs used 18 J. J. Barrett for T. Lyons 17 K. Coffey for D. McAuliffe
Subs not used 16 D. Geaney 19 S. Roche 20 D. O'Sullivan 21 P. Aherne
Roscommon 1 A. Brady 2 J. J. Breslin 3 J. Lynch 4 O. Moran 5 R. Craven 6 G. O'Malley (c) 7 G. Reilly 8 B. Kyne 9 J. Kelly 10 G. Geraghty 11 É. Curley 12 T. Whyte 13 Don Feely 14 C. Mahon 15 Des Feely
Subs used T. Turley for G. Reilly T. Kenny for T. Turley
Trainer D. Keenan
References
External links , a British Pathé newsreel of the game