icposition icupdate birth_date code nhl club name birth_place county sport nickname clposition icprovince counties icyears icallireland province article_title clcounty irish
midfield 20:19 , 21 april 2015 july 1930 hurling 8 marlfield theo english marlfield , county tipperary , ireland tipperary hurling t. o. midfield 7 tipperary 1953-1967 5 munster theo english
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theobald `` theo '' english -lrb- born july 1930 -rrb- is an irish retired hurler who played as a midfielder for the tipperary senior team .
born in marlfield , county tipperary , english first excelled at gaelic games in his youth .
he arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of nineteen when he first linked up with the tipperary junior teams as a dual player .
he made his senior hurling debut during the 1953-54 league after already being included on the senior football team .
english went on to play a key role for over a decade and won five all-ireland medals , seven munster medals and eight national hurling league medals .
he was an all-ireland runner-up on two occasions .
as a member of the munster inter-provincial team at various times throughout his career , english won four railway cup medals .
at club level he won several championship medals in various grades with marlfield .
throughout his career english made 36 championship appearances .
he announced his retirement from inter-county hurling following the conclusion of the 1967 championship .
in retirement from playing english became involved in team management and coaching .
he was a long-serving selector on several all-ireland-winning teams .
english is widely regarded as one of tipperary 's greatest ever players .
he has been repeatedly voted onto teams made up of the sport 's greats , including at midfield on the tipperary hurling team of the century .
