At inter-county level, he was midfield partner to Fachtna O'Donovan on the Cork senior football team that won the 1945 All-Ireland Championship; he had earlier won the first of four Munster Championship medals and ended his career with a National League title as team captain.
As well as club and county successes, Young was a regular for Munster for the best part of a decade and won three Railway Cup medals.
A move to Cork saw him join the Glen Rovers club, with whom he won a County Hurling Championship medal in 1940 after coming on as a substitute in the final against Sarsfields.
He won three County Football Championship titles from four final appearances between 1949 and 1953 following defeats of Macroom, St. Nicholas' and University College Cork.
Young, ironically, first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the Cork minor hurling team.
Two years later, in 1945, Young won a second Munster medal before lining out in Croke Park for the All-Ireland final.
[6] His brother, Jim Young, won five All-Ireland medals with the Cork senior hurling team, including four-in-a-row, and is regarded as one of the county's all-time greats.
[7] Young was educated at Dunmanway National School and later boarded at Good Counsel College in New Ross.
He subsequently retired from the army with the rank of commandant and took up a teaching post in Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh in Bishopstown.