1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Championship details
Dates 1905 – 16 June 1907
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Kildare (1st win)
Captain Joe Rafferty
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.[1][2][3]

Format

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

Results

Connacht Championship

Roscommon 0-8 – 0-3 Galway
Mayo 1-7 – 0-2 Sligo
Roscommon 0-7 – 0-5 Mayo

Leinster Championship

Offaly 0-8 – 0-1 Meath
Referee: Joe Kenny
Kildare 1-6 – 0-6 Offaly
Kildare 0-12 – 1-7 Louth

Munster Championship

Waterford 2-10 – 0-6 Clare
Kerry 5-8 – 1-4 Tipperary
Referee: W. Curtin
Cork 3-8 – 0-5 Waterford
Kerry 1-7 – 0-5 Cork
Kerry 2-10 – 1-6 Limerick

Ulster Championship

Cavan 0-7 – 0-3 Monaghan

All-Ireland Championship

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

Dublin 1-9 – 1-4 London
Kerry 2-10 – 1-3 Roscommon
Kildare 4-15 – 1-6 Cavan
Kildare 1-7 – 0-5 Kerry
Ned Kennedy 0-3, Jack Connolly 1-0, Bill "Steel" Losty 0-2, Frank "Joyce" Conlan 0-1
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: M.F. Crowe (Dublin)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Kildare are All Ireland champions for the first time.
  • Roscommon are Connacht champions for the first time.


References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-06.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-06.
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ Kerryman; 13/04/1907
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