Jack Young (Gaelic footballer)

John Young, known as Jack, was born on 20 October 1887 and died on 9 February 1965. He was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a midfielder at senior level for the Cork county team. He made his first appearance in the 1911 championship and was a regular in the starting fifteen for just two championship seasons, in which he won a set of All-Ireland and Munster winners' medals. At club level he began with Doheny's before winning two county championship medals with Nils in Cork city, and he also played hurling with St Finbarr's. He was the patriarch of a famous Gaelic games family in Cork, and his sons Éamonn and Jim were All-Ireland medallists in football and hurling respectively.