Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Tom Prendergast | |
Irish: | Tomás de Priondragás |
Birth Date: | 1943 |
Feet: | 5 |
Inches: | 8 |
County: | Kerry |
Province: | Munster |
Clubs: | Keel |
Clyears: | 1950s-1970s |
Clcounty: | 1 Football 1 Hurling |
Counties: | Kerry Wicklow Donegal Cork |
Icposition: | Right wing-back |
Icyears: | 1966-1973 |
Icapps(Points): | 23 (1-06) |
Icprovince: | 4 |
Icallireland: | 2 |
Nfl: | 3 |
Allstars: | 0 |
Birth Place: | Castlemaine, County Kerry |
Tom Prendergast (born 1943 in Castlemaine, County Kerry) is an Irish former sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club Keel and was a member of the Kerry county team at senior level in the 1960s and 1970s.[1] He won the Texaco Footballer of the Year in 1970. During the 1960s he also played with Wicklow, Donegal and Cork.
At club level with Keel he won a Kerry Intermediate Football Championship, Kerry Junior Football Championship and a number of Mid Kerry Senior Football Championship, he also won a Kerry Senior Football Championship with Mid Kerry. He also played hurling with the Killarney club and won a County Hurling Championship medal in 1969.