1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Championship details
Dates1905 – 16 June 1907
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamKildare (1st win)
CaptainJack Murray
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

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Roscommon0–8 – 0–3Galway
Mayo1–7 – 0–2Sligo
Roscommon0–7 – 0–5Mayo

Leinster

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Kilkenny2–7 – 1–4Laois
Louth1–8 – 1–1Wexford
Dublin0–2 – 0–6Kildare
Offaly0–8 – 0–1Meath
Referee: Joe Kenny
Kildare1–6 – 0–6Offaly
Louth0–5 – 0–5Kilkenny
Louth1–1 – 0–6Kilkenny

An objection was made and a replay ordered.

Louth0–6 – 0–5Kilkenny
6 January 1907[4][5][6] Final Kildare 0–12 – 1–7 Louth Jones' Road, Dublin
J. Scott 0–4, F. Conlan 0–3, B. Losty 0–2, E. Kennedy, W. Bracken, W. Merriman 0–1 each N. McCourt 1–0, M. Byrne, S. Fitzsimons, J. Hanlon, P. Hughes, J. Matthews, J. Mulligan, J. Ross 0–1 each Referee: M.F. Crowe (Dublin)
1Jack Fitzgerald (Roseberry) (gk)
2Jack Murray (Roseberry) (c)
3Jack Gorman (Roseberry)
4Larry 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)
17Frank 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)
8Eoin Markey (Ardee Volunteers)
9John McCabe (Geraldines)
10Joe Hanlon (Dundalk Rangers)
11William McAllister (Dundalk Young Irelands)
12Joe Matthews (Geraldines)
13Pat Hughes (Dundalk Young Irelands)
14Stephen 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

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

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Cavan0–7 – 0–3Monaghan

Quarter-final

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

Semi-finals

Kerry2–10 – 1–3Roscommon
30 September 1906
Semi-Final 		Kildare 4–15 – 1–6 Cavan Jones' Road, Dublin

Final

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)

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. ↑ "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "Leinster Senior Football Champions" (PDF). leinster.gaa.ie. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  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
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