Tom Allen (hurler)

Tom Allen, born Thomas Allen and living from 4 September 1874 to 20 June 1952, was an Irish hurler from Littleton, County Tipperary, whose championship career with the Tipperary senior team spanned several seasons from 1900 until 1907. The third of five children of William and Catherine Allen, he was educated locally and later worked as a farmer. He first played hurling with the Two-Mile-Borris club, with which he won county senior championship medals in 1900, 1903 and 1905 in a successful era for the club. Added to the Tipperary senior team after this club success, he made his debut during the 1900 championship, won an All-Ireland medal in his debut season and a second winners' medal in 1906, along with two Munster medals, and retired after the 1907 championship.