{{Short description|Irish Gaelic footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox GAA player | code= Football | sport = Gaelic football | image = | name = Bill Landers | irish = Liam de Londras | feet = | inches = | nickname = Lang | occupation = Hospital porter | county = Kerry | province = Munster | club = Rock Street<br>Austin Stacks | cposition = | clubs = | clyears = | clapps(points) = | clcounty = 1 | clprovince= | clallireland = | counties = Kerry | icposition = Left corner-forward | icyears = 1923-1933 | icapps(points) = | icprovince = 4 | icallireland = 2 | nfl = 1 | allstars = | clupdate = | icupdate = | birth_place=Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland | death_place=Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland | birth_date={{Birth date|1901|4|26|df=yes}} | death_date={{death date and age|1958|12|22|1901|4|26|df=yes}} }} {{Use Irish English|date=December 2021}} '''William John Landers''' (26 April 1901 – 22 December 1958) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played at club level with Rock Street and at inter-county level with the Kerry senior football team. He usually lined out as a forward.
==Career==
Landers enjoyed a successful Gaelic football career and was part of two All-Ireland-winning teams.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://munster.gaa.ie/history/sf_teams/|title=Senior Football|publisher=Munster GAA website|date=|access-date=18 September 2021|first=|last=|archive-date=12 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412221359/http://munster.gaa.ie/history/sf_teams/|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was also on the losing side in the 1923 All-Ireland final. Landers's inter-county career was interrupted as a result of his emigration to the United States in 1925. He returned in 1932 and immediately regained his place on the Kerry team, while he also won a County Championship title with Rock Street. Landers captained the Kerry team that toured North America in 1933 and played his last game for the team in an All-Ireland semi-final defeat by Cavan that same year. He also earned selection on the Munster team.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://munster.gaa.ie/history/railway-cup-football/|title=Railway Cup Football|publisher=Munster GAA website|date=|access-date=18 September 2021|first=|last=|archive-date=28 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328081427/http://munster.gaa.ie/history/railway-cup-football/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Personal life and death==
Landers was one of three brothers, Tim (Roundy) and John Joe (Purty), who between them won 12 All-Ireland medals.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/key-player-in-first-golden-age-of-kerry-football-1.327339|title=Key player in first golden age of Kerry football|publisher=Irish Times|date=15 September 2001|access-date=18 September 2021|first=|last=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://austinstacks.ie/remembering-one-of-the-greatest-tim-roundy-landers/|title=Remembering one of the Greatest – Tim ‘Roundy’ Landers|publisher=Austin Stacks GAA website|date=26 May 2001|access-date=18 September 2021|first=|last=}}</ref> He was involved in the War of Independence and took the anti-Treaty side during the Civil War.
Landers died from a heart attack on 22 December 1958.
==Honours==
;Rock Street *Kerry Senior Football Championship: 1932
;Kerry *All-Ireland Senior Football Championship: 1924, 1932 *Munster Senior Football Championship: 1923, 1924, 1932, 1933 *National Football League: 1931–32
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Navboxes |title=Bill Landers navigation boxes |list1= {{Kerry Football Team 1923}} {{Kerry Football Team 1924}} {{Kerry Football Team 1932}} }}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Landers, Bill}} Category:1901 births Category:1958 deaths Category:Austin Stacks Gaelic footballers Category:Kerry inter-county Gaelic footballers Category:Munster inter-provincial Gaelic footballers Category:Winners of two All-Ireland medals (Gaelic football) Category:20th-century Irish sportsmen