Billy Field (Gaelic footballer)

William Field, known as Billy Field and born in 1952, is a former Irish Gaelic footballer who played club football with St Michael's and represented Cork at inter-county level. His first successes came not in football but as a hurling goalkeeper with the Blackrock minor team that won the Cork minor hurling titles in 1968 and 1969. He also won the Corn Uí Mhuirí and Hogan Cup double with Coláiste Chríost Rí in 1970 and the 1972 Sigerson Cup with University College Cork. After playing minor and under-21 football for Cork he made his senior debut in December 1972, was top scorer in that debut season and won a Munster title, though a broken leg kept him out of the 1973 All-Ireland final win over Galway.