Nicky Rackard
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| Personal information | |||
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| Irish name | Nioclás Mac Riocaird | ||
| Sport | Dual player | ||
| Football Position: | Full-forward | ||
| Hurling Position: | Full-forward | ||
| Born |
28 October 1922 Killane, County Wexford, Ireland |
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| Died | 10 April 1976 (aged 53) Elm Park, Dublin, Ireland |
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| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||
| Occupation | Veterinary surgeon | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| Rathnure | |||
| Club titles | |||
| Football | Hurling | ||
| Wexford titles | 0 | 4 | |
| Inter-county(ies)* | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
| 1942–1957 | Wexford | 36 (59–96) | |
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Football | Hurling | ||
| Leinster Titles | 1 | 4 | |
| All-Ireland Titles | 0 | 2 | |
| League titles | 0 | 1 | |
| *Inter County team apps and scores correct as of (12:56, 19 September 2006 (UTC)). | |||
Nicholas "Nicky" Rackard (28 April 1922 – 10 April 1976) was an Irish hurler whose league and championship career with the Wexford senior team spanned seventeen years from 1940 to 1957. He established many championship scoring records, including being the top championship goal-scorer of all time with 59 goals. Rackard is widely regarded as one of the greatest hurlers in the history of the game.
Born in Killane, County Wexford, Rackard was introduced to sport by his father who had hoped he would become a cricketer. His uncle, John Doran, won an All-Ireland medal as a Gaelic footballer with Wexford in 1918 and it was hurling and Gaelic football that Rackard developed a talent for.
Rackard played competitive hurling as a boarder at St. Kieran's College in Kilkenny. Here he won back-to-back Leinster medals in 1938 and 1939, however, an All-Ireland medal remained elusive. By this stage Rackard had started playing for the local Rathnure St. Anne's club, winning a county junior championship medal in 1940. As a member of the club's senior team he won four county senior championship medals.
Rackard made his debut on the inter-county scene when he was selected for the Wexford minor panel. He was just out of the minor grade when he was selected for the Wexford senior team in 1940. Over the course of the next seventeen years, Rackard won two All-Ireland medals as part of the Wexford hurling breakthrough in 1955 and 1956. He also won four Leinster medals, one National Hurling League medal and one Leinster medal as a Gaelic footballer. He played his last game for Wexford in August 1957.
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