He played Gaelic football with his local club Dr. Crokes in Killarney, and was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team from 1903 until 1923.
Fitzgerald captained Kerry to back-to-back All-Ireland titles in 1913 and 1914 Dick was born at 15 College Street, Killarney on 2 October 1882.
[2] He learned much of his football at Presentation Brothers College, Cork and was helping the Nil Desperandum Club before he was eighteen.
[3] Fitzgerald played with Kerry against Kildare in the 1903 All-Ireland final, winning the championship after three previous encounters.
Fitzgerald captained the two winning teams of 1913 and 1914 against Wexford but retired from the game after Kerry's defeat in 1915 against the same opposition.