Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic Football |
Billy Field | |
Irish: | Liam an Mhachaire |
Occupation: | Bank official |
County: | Cork |
Province: | Munster |
Club: | St Michael's |
Clyears: | 1971-1981 |
Clcounty: | 1 |
Colleges: | University College Cork |
Sig: | 1 |
Counties: | Cork |
Icposition: | Right corner-forward |
Icyears: | 1972-1976 |
Icapps(Points): | 6 (2-20) |
Icprovince: | 1 |
Icallireland: | 1 |
Nfl: | 0 |
Allstars: | 0 |
Icupdate: | 20:13, 12 April 2012 |
Birth Date: | 1952 |
Birth Place: | Blackrock, County Cork, Ireland |
William Field (born 1952) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer. At club level he played with St Michael's and at inter-county level was a member of the Cork senior football team.
Field enjoyed his first successes, not as a Gaelic footballer but as a hurling goalkeeper with the Blackrock minor team that won Cork MHC titles in 1968 and 1969. He also played as a schoolboy with Coláiste Chríost Rí and was part of the school team that won a Corn Uí Mhuirí-Hogan Cup double in 1970.[1] He was later a member of the University College Cork team that beat University College Galway to win the Sigerson Cup title in 1972. Field first appeared on the inter-county scene as a member of the Cork minor football team in 1970.[2] He later appeared with the under-21 team after making his senior team debut in December 1972. Field was Cork's top scorer in his debut season and also won a Munster SFC, however, he suffered a broken leg which ruled him out of Cork's 1973 All-Ireland final defeat of Galway.[3] [4] [5] He returned to the team over team over the following few seasons. Field was also a member of the St. Michael's team that lost three consecutive Cork SFC finals from 1976 to 1978.[6]
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