Garry Scollard

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Garry Scollard
Personal information
Sport Gaelic football
Position Forward
Born Tralee, County Kerry
Club(s)
YearsClub
1960s–1970s
Austin Stacks
Club titles
Kerry titles 3
Munster titles 1
All-Ireland Titles 1
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
Kerry

Garry Scollard (died 2000) was a Gaelic footballer and hurler from the Austin Stacks club in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. He was a member of the Austin Stacks team that won the 1977 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship, and of the Kerry county hurling team that won the 1976 All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship. [1] [2] Scollard was paralysed following a car accident in 1978. [3] [4] He died in February 2000, [3] and an under-16 hurling competition was subsequently named the Gary Scollard Memorial Tournament. [1] [5]

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