1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Kerry (1st win)
Provincial Champions
Munster Kerry
Leinster Kildare
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Mayo
Championship statistics
← 1902
1904 →

The 1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 17th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kerry won their first football All-Ireland.[1][2][3]

Format

The four provincial championships are 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 Championship

Mayo 3-6 – 0-1 Roscommon

Leinster Championship

Longford 0-2 – 2-12 Wexford
Louth 1-6 – 0-1 Wexford
Offaly 0-2 – 1-5 Laois
Maryboro
Referee: J McCarthy
Kildare 1-2 – 0-5 Kilkenny
Kildare 1-6 – 1-5 Kilkenny

A replay was ordered due to a disputed disallowed Kilkenny point.

Kildare 0-9 – 0-1 Kilkenny

Munster Championship

Kerry 4-8 – 0-3 Waterford
Cork 1-5 – 0-4 Tipperary
Referee: L. O'Toole (D)
Kerry 2-7 – 2-0 Clare
Kerry 1-7 – 0-4 Cork

Ulster Championship

Monaghan 0-11 – 0-3 Fermanagh
Cavan 0-11 – 0-3 Monaghan
Cavan 0-5 – 0-5 Armagh
Abbey Park, Armagh[9]
Cavan 0-5 – 0-5 Armagh
Cavan 0-8 – 0-4 Armagh

All-Ireland Championship

Kerry 2-7 – 0-4 Mayo
Kildare 0-8 – 0-0 Cavan
Kerry 1-4 – 1-3
Unfinished		 Kildare

Unfinished game - replay ordered.

Kerry 0-7 – 1-4 Kildare
Kerry 0-8 – 0-2 Kildare
Kerry 0-11 – 0-3 London
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: John McCarthy (Kilkenny)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Kildare win their first ever Leinster final.
  • Kerry win their first ever All Ireland final.


References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-05.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-05.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
  4. ↑ Cork Examiner; 14/06/1904
  5. ↑ Freemans Journal; 08/08/1904
  6. ↑ Freemans Journal; 31/10/1904
  7. ↑ "Ulster Championship", Dundalk Democrat, 14 January 1905, p. 6
  8. ↑ "Ulster Championship", Dundalk Democrat, 18 March 1905, p. 7
  9. ↑ "Ulster Football Final", Meath Chronicle, 29 April 1905, p. 5
  10. ↑ "Ulster Final - Another Drawn Game", Anglo-Celt, 3 June 1905, p. 12
  11. ↑ "Ulster Final - Cavan victorious", The Anglo-Celt, 17 June 1905, p.12
  12. ↑ Cork Examiner; 08/05/1905
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