It was late on Saturday night, March 18, 1933, when the Kerry footballers arrived in Navan to the giant crowd waiting for them. The Kerry captain Paul Russell thanked everyone for the extraordinary welcome, and Kerry retired for the evening before their deciding league game against Meath the following day. It had been more than six years since Kerry had lost a league game. They had also accumulated four successive All-Ireland titles on an unbeaten championship run that stretched back to July 1928 when Tipperary beat them in the Munster championship. Meath had beaten Kerry…

Source: The Times March 12, 2017 00:04 UTC