death_date icposition birth_date code death_place club name occupation fullname birth_place county sport icprovince counties icyears icallireland province article_title clcounty irish
11 april 1943 half-forward 1879 hurling thurles , county tipperary , ireland thurles tom semple railway guard thomas semple drombane , county tipperary , ireland tipperary hurling 4 tipperary 1897-1909 3 munster tom semple
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tom semple

thomas `` tom '' semple -lrb- 1879 -- 1943 -rrb- was an irish hurler who played as a half-forward for the tipperary senior team .
semple joined the panel during the 1897 championship and eventually became a regular member of the starting seventeen until his retirement after the 1909 championship .
during that time he won three all-ireland medals and four munster medals .
an all-ireland runner-up on one occasion , semple captained the team to the all-ireland title in 1906 and in 1908 .
at club level semple was a six-time county club championship medalist with thurles .
