Philly Grimes
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Pilib Ó Gormshúil | ||
| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Midfield | ||
| Born |
8 May 1929 Waterford, Ireland |
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| Died | 8 May 1989 (aged 60) Waterford, Ireland |
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| Nickname | Philly | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| Mount Sion | |||
| Club titles | |||
| Waterford titles | 14 Hurling, 5 Football | ||
| Munster titles | 2 clallireland = 2 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
| 1948-1965 | Waterford | 32 (11-71) | |
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Munster titles | 3 | ||
| All-Irelands | 2 | ||
| NHL | 1 | ||
Phillip "Philly" Grimes (8 May 1929 – 8 May 1989) was an Irish hurler who played as a midfielder for the Waterford senior team.
Born in Waterford, Grimes first played competitive hurling during his schooling at Mount Sion CBS. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of 17 when he first linked up with the Waterford minor team. He joined the senior team during the 1947-48 league. Grimes immediately became a regular member of the starting 15, and won two All-Ireland medals, three Munster medals and one National Hurling League medal on the field of play. He was an All-Ireland runner-up on two occasions.
As a member of the Munster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, Grimes won two Railway Cup medals. At club level he was a 14-time championship and five-time senior football medallist with Mount Sion.
Throughout his career Grimes made 32 championship appearances. He retired from inter-county hurling following the conclusion of the 1965 championship.
Phil Grimes was born in Waterford in 1929 and was educated locally at the Mount Sion Schools. In a career that lasted eighteen years he also played for Waterford and Munster.
Grimes played his club hurling with his local Mount Sion club. He won the first of his fourteen senior hurling county titles in 1948 when he was just out of minor ranks and was a senior player when Mount Sion won a record equalling nine consecutive county senior hurling titles (1953–62). Grimes won a further three county titles in-a-row in 1963, 1964 and 1965. He also helped Mount Sion to four county senior football titles. All his fourteen senior hurling and four senior football medals were won within a period of 18 years.
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