John Joe Landers
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Seán Seosamh de Londras | ||
| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Position | Right corner-forward | ||
| Born |
23 April 1907 Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland |
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| Died | 27 August 2001 (aged 94) Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland |
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| Nickname | Purty | ||
| Occupation | Bacon factory worker | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
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Tralee Rock Street Austin Stacks |
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| Club titles | |||
| Football | Hurling | ||
| Kerry titles | 8 | 5 | |
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
| 1927-1938 | Kerry | 29 (11-20) | |
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Munster titles | 10 | ||
| All-Irelands | 5 | ||
| NFL | 4 | ||
| All Stars | 1 | ||
John Joseph Landers (23 April 1907 – 27 August 2001) was an Irish Gaelic footballer, Gaelic games administrator and republican activist. His league and championship career with the Kerry senior team spanned twelve years from 1927 to 1938. Landers is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the game.
Raised in Tralee, County Kerry, Landers was one of six children born to the former Catherine Roche and Garrett Landers. He was educated locally and first played competitive hurling and Gaelic football with the combined Tralee district team with whom he won a combined total of five county senior championship medals in both codes between 1925 and 1927. With the newly-created Rock Street club he won a further three county hurling championship medals, while with the Austin Stacks club Landers won five more county football championship medals.
Landers made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty when he was selected for the Kerry senior team. He made his debut during the 1927 championship. Over the course of the next eleven years, Landers won five All-Ireland medals, beginning with a record-equalling four championships in-a-row from 1929 to 1932 and a final lone triumph in 1937. He also won ten Munster medals and four National Football League medals. He played his last game for Kerry in October 1938. Landers's brothers, Bill and Tim, also enjoyed All-Ireland success with Kerry.
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