At club level he played with Tralee Mitchels and was an All-Ireland Championship-winning captain with the Kerry senior football team.
He won three county senior championship medals with the club between 1897 and 1903, captaining the team in the latter year.
O'Gorman first lined out for the Kerry senior team at the age of 20 but enjoyed his greatest success at the end of his career.
In 1903 he became the first player to captain Kerry to the All-Ireland Championship, before claiming a second successive winners' medal the following year.
[2] O'Gorman lived in Tralee his entire life and worked as printer with The Kerryman newspaper.