1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
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Event | 1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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Date | 12 November 1905 | ||||||
Venue | Jones' Road, Dublin | ||||||
Referee | John McCarthy (Kilkenny) | ||||||
Attendance | 10,000 | ||||||
The 1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the sixteenth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Match
[edit]Summary
[edit]This was the fourth year in a row in which London were heavily beaten in the final; after this, they were no longer given a bye to the All-Ireland final.[1]
Sam Maguire captained London Hibernians.[2]
Details
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Post-match
[edit]The 1903 final marked the first time Kerry won an All-Ireland football title. They would go on to dominate the game for decades to come. Dublin were the dominant force in Gaelic football at this time with eight All-Ireland titles; within 40 years Kerry had surpassed this and have since left Dublin in the shade in terms of All-Ireland football titles secured.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
- ^ "Hidden Histories w/Turtle Bunbury; Sam Maguire and Liam McCarthy". Newstalk.
- ^ Moran, Sean (17 September 2011). "Kerry pioneers the kings of the urban-rural frontier". The Irish Times. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
It wasn't until the 1903 All-Ireland that Kerry won their first title by which stage Dublin had eight; it took Kerry less than 40 years to catch them.