1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final explained

1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Event:1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Team1score:1–7
(10)
Team2score:0–5
(5)
Date:16 June 1907
Stadium:Thurles Sportsfield
City:Thurles
Referee:M. F. Crowe (Dublin)
Attendance: 15,000
Previous:1904
Next:1906

The 1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the eighteenth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Kildare's seventeen players consisted of Clane players in the forwards and Roseberry players in the backs. Kildare led 0–6 to 0–1 at half-time and Jack Connolly's goal secured victory. For the first time, the telephone was used to relay news of victory back to the winning county.[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  2. Web site: Centenary of Kildare's first All Ireland victory . Eoghan . Corry . Kildare Voice . 15 June 2007 . Co. Kildare Online Electronic History Journal . 29 May 2021 .