1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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]

1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Championship details
Dates1905 – 16 June 1907
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamKildare (1st win)
CaptainJoe Rafferty
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamKerry
CaptainMaurice McCarthy
Provincial Champions
MunsterKerry
LeinsterKildare
UlsterCavan
ConnachtRoscommon
Championship statistics
1904
1906

Format

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

Results

Connacht Championship

Roscommon0-8 – 0-3Galway

Mayo1-7 – 0-2Sligo

Roscommon0-7 – 0-5Mayo

Leinster Championship

Offaly0-8 – 0-1Meath
Referee: Joe Kenny

Dublin0-2 – 0-6Kildare

Kildare1-6 – 0-6Offaly

Kildare0-12 – 1-7Louth

Munster Championship

Waterford2-10 – 0-6Clare

Kerry5-8 – 1-4Tipperary
Referee: W. Curtin

Cork3-8 – 0-5Waterford

Kerry1-7 – 0-5Cork

Kerry2-10 – 1-6Limerick

Ulster Championship

Cavan0-7 – 0-3Monaghan

All-Ireland 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.

Dublin1-9 – 1-4London

Kerry2-10 – 1-3Roscommon

Kildare4-15 – 1-6Cavan

Kildare1-7 – 0-5Kerry
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.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Kerryman; 13/04/1907
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