1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Championship details
Dates1905 – 16 June 1907
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Kildare (1st win)
CaptainJack Murray
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team Kerry
Captain Maurice McCarthy
Provincial Champions
Munster Kerry
Leinster Kildare
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Roscommon
Championship statistics
1904
1906

The 1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 19th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kildare were the winners ended 2 years of Kerry in the All Ireland final. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Format

The four provincial championships were played as usual; the four champions joined London in the All-Ireland Championship.

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Roscommon 0-8 – 0-3 Galway

Mayo 1-7 – 0-2 Sligo

Roscommon 0-7 – 0-5 Mayo

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Kilkenny 2-7 – 1-4 Laois

Louth 1-8 – 1-1 Wexford

Dublin 0-2 – 0-6 Kildare

Offaly 0-8 – 0-1 Meath
Jones' Road, Dublin
Referee: Joe Kenny

Kildare 1-6 – 0-6 Offaly

Louth 0-5 – 0-5 Kilkenny

Louth 1-1 – 0-6 Kilkenny

An objection was made and a replay ordered.


Louth 0-6 – 0-5 Kilkenny
6 January 1907 [4] [5] [6] Final Colours of Kildare.svg Kildare 0-12 – 1-7 Colours of Louth.svg Louth Jones' Road, Dublin
J. Scott 0-4, F. Conlan 0-3, B. Losty 0-2, E. Kennedy, W. Bracken, W. Merriman 0-1 eachN. McCourt 1-0, M. Byrne, S. Fitzsimons, J. Hanlon, P. Hughes, J. Matthews, J. Mulligan, J. Ross 0-1 eachReferee: M.F. Crowe (Dublin)
1Jack Fitzgerald (Roseberry) (gk)
2Jack Murray (Roseberry) (c)
3Jack Gorman (Roseberry)
4 Larry Cribbin (Clane)
5Tom Brown (Roseberry)
6William Merriman (Clane)
7Edward Kennedy (Clane)
8Mick Fitzgerald (Roseberry)
9Joe Rafferty (Clane)
10Mick Murray (Roseberry)
11Mick Kennedy (Roseberry)
12Jim Scott (Roseberry)
13William Bracken (Clane)
14Matt Donnelly (Roseberry)
15Bill Losty (Clane)
16Tom Crowley (Kilcock)
17 Frank Conlan (Roseberry)
1Frank Ward (Dundalk Young Irelands) (gk)
2Peter Markey (Ardee Volunteers)
3Matt Coleman (Dundalk Young Irelands)
4Arthur Hanratty (Dundalk John Dillons)
5Joe Mulligan (Dundalk Young Irelands) (c)
6Pat Brennan (Geraldines)
7James Coburn (Geraldines)
8 Eoin Markey (Ardee Volunteers)
9John McCabe (Geraldines)
10Joe Hanlon (Dundalk Rangers)
11William McAllister (Dundalk Young Irelands)
12Joe Matthews (Geraldines)
13Pat Hughes (Dundalk Young Irelands)
14 Stephen Fitzsimons (Dundalk Young Irelands)
15Joe Ross (Dundalk Rangers)
16Nick McCourt (Dundalk Young Irelands)
17Michael Byrne (Geraldines)
Substitutes:
18Nick Tuite (Dundalk John Dillons) for McAllister

Munster Senior Football Championship

Waterford 2-10 – 0-6 Clare

Kerry 5-8 – 1-4 Tipperary
Cork Athletic Grounds
Referee: W. Curtin (Cork)

Cork 3-8 – 0-5 Waterford

Kerry 1-7 – 0-5 Cork

Kerry 2-10 – 1-6 Limerick

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Cavan 0-7 – 0-3 Monaghan

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

As the Leinster Championship was not finished by the time London was supposed to play their quarter-final, Dublin was nominated to face them. When Kildare won the Leinster Championship, they were deemed to have defeated London.

Dublin 1-9 – 1-4 London

Kerry 2-10 – 1-3 Roscommon
30 September 1906
Semi-Final
Kildare 4-15 – 1-6 Cavan Jones' Road, Dublin
Kildare 1-7 – 0-5 Kerry
Ned Kennedy 0-3, Jack Connolly 1-0, Bill "Steel" Losty 0-2, Frank "Joyce" Conlan 0-1
Thurles
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: M.F. Crowe (Dublin)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

References

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  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). leinster.gaa.ie. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Mulligan, Fr. John (1984). The GAA in Louth - An Historical Record. Louth GAA.
  5. "Brilliant Victory For Kildare". Kildare Observer and Eastern Counties Advertiser. 12 January 1907.
  6. "Centenary of Kildare's first All Ireland victory". Kildare Voice. 15 June 2007.
  7. Kerryman; 13/04/1907