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 teamKildare (1st win)
CaptainJoe Rafferty
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamKerry
CaptainMaurice McCarthy
Provincial Champions
MunsterKerry
LeinsterKildare
UlsterCavan
ConnachtRoscommon
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]

Format

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

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Roscommon0-8 – 0-3Galway

Mayo1-7 – 0-2Sligo

Roscommon0-7 – 0-5Mayo

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Kilkenny
2-7 – 1-4Laois

Louth1-8 – 1-1Wexford
Jones' Road, Dublin


Offaly0-8 – 0-1Meath


Kilkenny
Jones' Road, Dublin

An objection was made and a replay ordered.



Munster Senior Football Championship

Waterford2-10 – 0-6Clare

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

Cork3-8 – 0-5Waterford

Kerry1-7 – 0-5Cork

Kerry2-10 – 1-6Limerick

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Cavan0-7 – 0-3Monaghan

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.

Dublin1-9 – 1-4London
Jones' Road, Dublin


Kildare4-15 – 1-6Cavan
Jones' Road, Dublin

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

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

References

  1. ^ "Football Results 1887 - 1910 | the Official Website of the GAA". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  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. ^ Kerryman; 13/04/1907