Tom Prendergast (Gaelic footballer)

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 senior inter-county team 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.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Michael Gleeson (politician)	Kerry Senior Football Captain 1972	Succeeded by Paudie O'Donoghue

Kerry – 1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

Subs used: 17 P. Moynihan for T. Prendergast; 23 S. Mac Gearailt for S. Burrows

Subs not used: 16 Dom O'Donnell; 18 M. Ó Sé; 19 M. Sheehan; 20 P. J. McIntyre; 21 M. O'Sullivan; 22 T. Bowler; 24 D. Lovett; 25 J. O'Brien; 26 D. Crowley

Kerry – 1969 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (21st title)

Subs not used: 16 D. O'Sullivan; 17 M. Fleming; 18 J. O'Keeffe; 19 D. Crowley; 20 D. O'Donnell; 21 A. Fogarty

Kerry – 1970 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (22nd title)

Subs not used: 17 D. Crowley; 18 P.J. Burns; 19 T. O'Donnell; 20 P. Finnegan

Kerry – 1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

Subs used in drawn game and replay: 17 D. Crowley for S. Mac Gearailt; 16 P. Griffin for M. Gleeson; 18 J. Walsh for B. Lynch

Kerry – 1980 All-Ireland Minor Football Champions (9th title)

1 R. O'Brien 2 D. Keane 3 M. Crowley 4 M. Counihan 5 J. O'Sullivan 6 T. Sheehy 7 J.T. O'Sullivan 8 A. O'Donovan 9 P. O'Donoghue 10 T. Dee 11 J. Shannon 12 L. Kearns 13 T. Parker 14 W. Maher 15 M. McAuliffe Subs T. Spillane Manager T. Prendergast

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