John Dowling (Gaelic footballer)

John Dowling (1930 to 1998) was an Irish sportsperson who played Gaelic football for his local club, Kerins O'Rahilly's, and at senior level for the Kerry county team between 1954 and 1961. He was captain of the Kerry side that won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title in 1955. Earlier in his career he had won Munster and All-Ireland Junior medals with Kerry in 1949, and before that a Munster Minor Championship medal in 1948. The surviving record of his career is short, but it shows a player who moved from minor and junior honours in the late 1940s to captaining Kerry to the national senior title within a few years of joining the county's senior panel.