Jerry Beckett

Jerry Beckett
Personal information
Irish name	Diarmaid Beicéid
Sport	Gaelic Football
Position	Forward
Born	1887 Kilgarvan, County Kerry, Ireland
Occupation	National school teacher
Club(s)
Years	Club
1900s-1920s	Lees
Club titles
Cork titles	5
Inter-county(ies)*
Years	County	Apps (scores)
1907-1917	Cork	15 (1-2)
Inter-county titles
Munster titles	2
All-Irelands	1
*Inter County team apps and scores correct as of 23:20, 10 April 2012.

Jeremiah A. "Jerry" Beckett (born 1887) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a forward for the Cork senior team.

Beckett made his first appearance for the team during the 1907 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen for the following ten years. During that time he won one All-Ireland medal and two Munster medals.^[1]

At club level Beckett was a multiple county championship medalist with Lees.

Beckett's son, Derry, was a dual All-Ireland medalist with Cork in the 1940s.^[2]

References

↑ "Munster Senior Football Winning Teams". Munster GAA website. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
↑ "The most famous challenge match in Carlow GAA history". Carlow People. 24 May 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2012.

Cork – 1907 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

B. Mackesy (c) J. McCarthy J. Morrissey M. Mehigan P. O'Neill J. Ryan T. Breen J. Beckett J. Shorten C. O'Shea J. O'Driscoll J. Lehane J. Kelleher J. Kent R. O'Sullivan J. Murphy D. Flavin

Cork – 1911 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (2nd title)

M. O'Shea M. Mehigan (c) J. Beckett E. Barrett B. Mackesy J. O'Donovan J. O'Driscoll T. Murphy M. Cotter J. Lehane B. Lehane J. Lynch J. Young C. Kelleher P. O'Connell J. O'Neill C. Paye Subs used: T. Breen P. McSweeney

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