Word: gilligan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late practice start and probably will not hit their stride until well after the Christmas holidays. As holdovers from the 1939 five which finished second only to Dartmouth in the final standings, Coach Paul Mooney has little Albie Myers and Jack Naylor, regulars, and John Gilligan, a reserve who saw plenty of action...
Naylor, Myers's probably running mate at forward, is a defensive standout. Gilligan and Hasslinger are battling for the first-string center post, while Primich and Will have the inside track for the guard jobs. In addition to the Sophomores and holdovers there are Vince Gutendorf, a Senior who did not play last year, and John Cerrone, a Junior in his first season of play. Unfortunately for the Lions, they will have to play six of their first eight games on the road, and their lack of height will be a big disadvantage...
WHITE SAILS CROWDING - Edmund Gilligan-Scribner...
...Edmund Gilligan's Boundary Against Night (1938) was an ambitious, untidy, talented novel about the Boston Police Strike, included two Bannon brothers among its characters. White Sails Crowding is told by an earlier Bannon. No less high-blooded but tidier, it is a deliberately old-fashioned story of romantic adventure along the Grand Banks...
Unabashed in writing purple passages, Author Gilligan is at his best in communicating scenes of disorder like those that mark the beginning of the strike: "In and out of hovels and flats, from boardinghouses to cheap hotels . . . the word ran from mouth to mouth: mouths of thieves, mouths of safebreakers, mouths of pickpockets, mouths of rowdies, mouths of the half-dead, mouths of the gamblers, mouths of the whores. . . . Throngs of hoodlums moved in secret, waiting for some one deed to start a great one." As a result, readers are not likely to have much confidence in his portraits...