death_date icprovinceh icupdate birth_date clcountyh code death_place club icprovincef nhl icallirelandh feet image name occupation caption icpositionf icallirelandf birth_place inches county nfl icpositionh clcountyf clubs counties icyears province article_title irish
10 april 1976 4 -lrb- -rrb- 12:56 , 19 september 2006 -lrb- utc -rrb- 28 october 1922 4 hurling elm park , dublin , ireland rathnure 1 1 2 6 nicky rackard statue in wexford.jpg nicky rackard veterinary surgeon statue of rackard in wexford town full-forward 0 killane , county wexford , ireland 3 wexford 0 full-forward 0 rathnure wexford 1942 -- 1957 leinster nicky rackard
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nicky rackard

nicholas `` nicky '' rackard -lrb- 28 april 1922 -- 10 april 1976 -rrb- was an irish hurler and gaelic footballer who played as a full-forward for the wexford senior teams .
born in killane , county wexford , rackard first excelled at hurling whilst at school in st. kieran 's college .
he arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty when he made his senior debut in the 1942 championship .
rackard went on to play a key part for wexford during a golden age for the team , and won two all-ireland medals , four leinster medals and one national hurling league medals .
his gaelic football career ran concurrently and earned him one leinster medal .
as a member of the leinster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions over a fourteen-year period , rackard won just one railway cup medal .
at club level he won four championship medals with rathnure .
rackard remains the most proficient goal-scorer in the history of the championship .
his career tally of 59 goals and 96 points was a record score which briefly stood until it was surpassed by christy ring and others .
throughout his career , rackard made 36 championship appearances for wexford .
his retirement came following wexford 's defeat by kilkenny in the 1957 championship .
rackard 's brothers , billy and bobby , also enjoyed all-ireland success with wexford .
in retirement from playing , rackard became involved in team management and coaching .
as manager and selector at various times , he helped wexford to further all-ireland honours in the 1960s .
rackard is widely regarded as one of the greatest hurlers in the history of the game .
he has been repeatedly voted onto teams made up of the sport 's greats , including at full-forward on the hurling team of the century .
rackard was sensationally omitted from the hurling team of the millennium in favour of ray cummins .
