1903 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
 Kerry, champions | |||||||
| 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
Summary
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]
The 1903 final marked the first time Kerry won an All-Ireland SFC title. They would go on to dominate the game for decades to come. Dublin were the dominant force in football at this time with eight All-Ireland SFC titles; within 40 years Kerry had surpassed this and have since left Dublin in the shade in terms of All-Ireland SFC titles secured.[3]
Details
      Kerry |  London
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Kerry
- 1 Paddy Dillon
- 2 Rody Kirwan
- 3 Con Healy
- 4 Maurice McCarthy
- 5 Florrie O'Sullivan
- 6 Denny Breen
- 7 Austin Stack
- 8 Dan McCarthy
- 9 John Buckley
- 10 Denny Curran
- 11 Jack Myers
- 12 Denny Kissane
- 13 Dick Fitzgerald
- 14 Thady O'Gorman
- 15 Jim O'Gorman
- 16 Willie Lynch
- 17 J. T. Fitzgerald
- Subs
- Con Ryan for Healy
- Patrick Cahill for Kirwan
References
- ^ 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.