His league and championship career at senior level for the Kerry county team spanned sixteen seasons from 1930 to 1945.
He was educated locally and first played competitive hurling and Gaelic football with the Rock Street club, with whom he won three county hurling championship medals, while with the later renamed Austin Stacks club Landers won five county football championship medals.
[citation needed] Landers made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of fifteen when he was selected for the Kerry junior team, winning All-Ireland medals in that grade in 1928 and 1930.
[1] After being chosen for the Munster interprovincial team for the first time in 1931, Landers was an automatic choice on the starting fifteen until 1940.
[citation needed] In retirement from playing, Landers came to be regarded as one of Kerry's greatest players of all time.