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 This year's final was not played until 12 November 1905.
Summary Sam Maguire captained London Hibernians.
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.
Details
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
Legacy This was the fourth consecutive year that London lost the final heavily; after this, London no longer received a bye to the All-Ireland SFC final.High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
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