Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Bill Landers | |
Irish: | Liam de Londras |
Nickname: | Lang |
Occupation: | Hospital porter |
County: | Kerry |
Province: | Munster |
Club: | Rock Street Austin Stacks |
Clcounty: | 1 |
Counties: | Kerry |
Icposition: | Left corner-forward |
Icyears: | 1923-1933 |
Icprovince: | 4 |
Icallireland: | 2 |
Nfl: | 1 |
Birth Place: | Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland |
Death Place: | Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland |
Birth Date: | 26 April 1901 |
William John Landers (26 April 1901 - 22 December 1958) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played at club level with Rock Street and at inter-county level with the Kerry senior football team. He usually lined out as a forward.
Landers enjoyed a successful Gaelic football career and was part of two All-Ireland-winning teams.[1] He was also on the losing side in the 1923 All-Ireland final. Landers's inter-county career was interrupted as a result of his emigration to the United States in 1925. He returned in 1932 and immediately regained his place on the Kerry team, while he also won a County Championship title with Rock Street. Landers captained the Kerry team that toured North America in 1933 and played his last game for the team in an All-Ireland semi-final defeat by Cavan that same year. He also earned selection on the Munster team.[2]
Landers was one of three brothers, Tim (Roundy) and John Joe (Purty), who between them won 12 All-Ireland medals.[3] [4] He was involved in the War of Independence and took the anti-Treaty side during the Civil War.
Landers died from a heart attack on 22 December 1958.
1932
1923, 1924, 1932, 1933