1900 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1900 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Championship details
Dates	18 August 1901 – 26 October 1902
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team	Tipperary (3rd win)
Captain	Jack Tobin
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team	London
Provincial Champions
Munster	Tipperary
Leinster	Kilkenny
Ulster	Antrim
Connacht	Galway
Championship statistics
No. matches played	9
← 1899 1901 →

The 1900 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 14th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. The Leinster Quarter Final Wexford end Dublin's 3 year All Ireland title. Tipperary were the winners. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Format

1900 saw the introduction of a new All-Ireland format. The four provincial championships would be played as usual. The four champions play in the "Home" championship, with the winners of the Home final going on to face London in the All-Ireland final.

Results

Connacht

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Galway were the only entrants, so they received a bye to the Home semi-final.

Leinster

Leinster Senior Football Championship

1901
Round 1

Wexford	0–4 – 0–5	Kildare

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1901
Round 2

Dublin	0–0 – 0–0	Kildare

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1901
Round 3

Dublin	7–17 – 0–3	Laois

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1901
Round 4

Kilkenny	2–11 – 0–0	Carlow

Borris

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1901
Round 5

Louth	6–19 – 0–7	Meath

Drogheda

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19 October 1901
Quarter-Final

Laois	5–14 – 1–1	Kildare

Jones Road

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1900
Quarter-Final

Wexford	1–7 – 0–8	Dublin

Kilkenny

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18 August 1901
Quarter-Final

Offaly	0–1 – 6–14	Louth

Donnycarney

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19 October 1901
Quarter-Final

Kildare	1–7 – 3–9	Louth

Jones Road

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1901
Semi-final

Wicklow	0–7 – 1–8	Louth

Monkstown

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1901
Semi-final

Kilkenny	1–5 – 0–5	Wexford

Kilkenny v Louth

3 November 1901 [4] [5] [6] Final	Kilkenny	0–12 – 0–0	Louth	Wexford Park
				Referee: W.H. Redmond (Dublin) [7]

1 Pat Crowley (gk) 2 Dan Maher 3 Dick Purcell (c) 4 Dan Harney 5 John O'Shea 6 James Cooney 7 William Morrissey 8 Tom Phelan 9 Martin Bowers 10 Pat Wall 11 Mick Tobin 12 Jim Dwyer 13 Jim Burke 14 Jack O'Neill 15 Pat Conway 16 Bill O'Toole 17 John Hyland

1 Paddy Cluskey (gk) 2 Jim Harrison 3 Paddy McDonnell (c) 4 Jack Clarke 5 Dick Murray 6 Bill Sherry 7 Joe Mooney 8 Jim Hughes 9 Jimmy Quinn 10 Jimmy Martin 11 John Gregory 12 Johnny Gerrard 13 Peter L'Estrange 14 Jim Murray 15 Chris McCann 16 Nick O'Neill 17 Eddie Dempsey

• Kilkenny fielded the Slate Quarry Miners side that won the 1900 Kilkenny Senior Football Championship. Louth were represented by Drogheda Independents, the outgoing Louth county champions.

Munster

Munster Senior Football Championship

20 October 1901
Quarter-Final

Limerick	w/o	Clare

Markets Field ^[8]

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3 November 1901
Quarter-Final

Tipperary	0–3 – 0–1	Cork

Dungarvan ^[9]

Referee: P. Hayes (L)

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10 November 1901
Semi-final

Kerry	1–3 – 0–5	Waterford

Turner's Cross ^[10]

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16 March 1902
Semi-final

Tipperary	2–4 – 2–1	Limerick

Tipperary ^[11]

Referee: T.Dooley

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11 May 1902
Final

Tipperary	1–13 – 1–2	Kerry

Markets Field ^[12]

Referee: J.Fitzgerald

Ulster

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Antrim were the only entrants, so they received a bye to the Home semi-final.

Semi-finals

1900
Home Semi-final

Galway	w/o – scr.	Antrim

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29 June 1902
Home Semi-final

Tipperary	0–7 – 1–6	Kilkenny

Carrick-on-Suir

Referee: T. Redmond

Tipperary made an objection and were awarded the game.

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21 September 1902
Home Final

Tipperary	2–17 – 0–1	Galway

Terenure ^[13]

Final

Main article: 1900 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

26 October 1902
Final

Tipperary	3–7 – 0–2	London

Jones's Road, Dublin

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: T. Redmond

Statistics

Miscellaneous

• Connacht and Munster back for the first time since 1892.
• London become part of the All Ireland Series.
• Tipperary won the double in football and hurling for the like 5 years before hand in 1895 the last time that it happened until Cork in 1990.

References

1. "Football Results 1887 – 1910 | the Official Website of the GAA". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
4. Mulligan, Fr. John (1984). The GAA in Louth – An Historical Record. Louth GAA. p. 54.
5. "Sport And Play". Kilkenny People . 9 November 1901.
6. "Kilkenny GAA Bible 2018" (PDF). Gerry O'Neill. Kilkenny GAA.
7. Ryall, Tom (2000). Comhairle Laighean – 100 Years of Gaelic Games. Kilkenny People Printing Limited. p. 131.
8. "All-Ireland Championships", Cork Examiner, 21 October 1901, p. 7
9. Freemans Journal, 4 November 1901, p. 14
10. Cork Examiner; 11 November 1901
11. "G.A.A. The All-Ireland Championships", The Cork Examiner; 18 March 1902, p.3
12. Cork Examiner; 14 May 1902
13. "All-Ireland Championships", Freemans Journal, 22 September 1902, p. 7