He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Cork minor team before later joining the junior side.
As a member of the Munster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, Fouhy won four Railway Cup medals.
In 1944 Fouhy joined a Cork senior team on the brink of history as they aimed to capture a fourth All-Ireland title in-a-row.
Fouhy was suspended from the Cork senior team in 1946 after lining out illegally in a club game in Waterford.
On 29 June 1947 Fouhy made his senior championship debut when he came on as a substitute in Cork's 3-10 to 1-5 Munster semi-final defeat of Waterford.
In spite of only leading by three points at half-time Cork eventually won by 2-14 to 0-7 and Fouhy picked up a first All-Ireland medal on the field of play.
The game itself is remembered as one of the ugliest championship deciders ever and is clouded in controversy due to the injury to the Galway captain, Mick Burke.
After missing much of the team's successful provincial campaign, Fouhy was restored to the starting fifteen for the All-Ireland showdown with Wexford on 23 September 1956.
The game has gone down in history as one of the all-time classics as Christy Ring was bidding for a record ninth All-Ireland medal.
The game turned on one important incident as the Wexford goalkeeper, Art Foley, made a miraculous save from a Ring shot and cleared the sliotar up the field to set up another attack.
[5] On 27 April 1977, Fouhy died aged 53 at St. Finbarr's Hospital in Cork after taking ill the previous day.
After the news of his death, leading figures from the world of hurling paid tribute to him, with former teammate and incumbent GAA president Con Murphy described him as "a most accomplished and sporting hurler and one of nature's gentlemen."