John Joe Landers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer
Date of Birth: 23-Apr-1907
Place of Birth: Tralee, South, Ireland
Date of Death: 27-Aug-2001
Profession: Gaelic football player, hurler
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About John Joe Landers
- John Joseph Landers (23 April 1907 – 27 August 2001) was an Irish Gaelic footballer, Gaelic games administrator and republican activist.
- His league and championship career with the Kerry senior team spanned twelve years from 1927 to 1938.
- Landers has been described as "one of [Kerry']s greatest football legends".Raised in Tralee, County Kerry, Landers was one of six children born to the former Catherine Roche and Garrett Landers.
- He was educated locally and first played competitive hurling and Gaelic football with the combined Tralee district team with whom he won a combined total of five county senior championship medals in both codes between 1925 and 1927.
- With the newly-created Rock Street club he won a further three county hurling championship medals, while with the Austin Stacks club Landers won five more county football championship medals. Landers made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty when he was selected for the Kerry senior team.
- He made his debut during the 1927 championship.
- Over the course of the next eleven years, Landers won five All-Ireland medals, beginning with a record-equalling four championships in-a-row from 1929 to 1932 and a final lone triumph in 1937.
- He also won ten Munster medals and four National Football League medals.
- He played his last game for Kerry in October 1938.
- Landers's brothers, Bill and Tim, also enjoyed All-Ireland success with Kerry. After being chosen on the Munster inter-provincial team for the first time in 1928, Landers was an automatic choice on the starting fifteen until 1935.
- During that time he won one Railway Cup medal. Even during his playing days Landers became involved in the administrative affairs of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
- He served two years as joint-secretary of the Kerry County Board.
- Landers also served as a selector with the Kerry senior team. In retirement from playing Landers came to be regarded as one of Kerry's greatest players of all time.
- In 1985 he and his brother Tim were presented with the GAA All-Time All-Star award.
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