Word: irished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Providence's "Irish Brigade" of John Treacy and Gerry Degan teamed with full-fledged American Dan Dillon to blow away the rest of the field by the mile mark of Franklin's five-mile circuit, and the Friars--ranked fifth nationally--owned the race after that...
...They're going to get so far ahead of us," lamented cross-country Coach Bill McCurdy the night before yesterday's meet with Providence and UMass--"They've got both sides of the warring Irish together and put them on one team...
Their origin notwithstanding, the pair did not prompt McCurdy to romanticize about their talent. That quality was in ample abundance yesterday at Franklin Park, where the two Irish imports ran to a dead heat, a three-way tie for first place with teammate Danny Dillon. All three were clocked at 24:01, a stiff pace for this early in the season. Providence's top three sweep, together with the capture of places six, seven and ten, enabled it to overpower UMass, its closest competition, and throttle Harvard. The first Harvard runner to finish the race was Ed Sheehan (no relation...
...this sort of activity is not unusual for Treacy, who has been leading the Providence pack ever since he came over from the Old Country three years ago. At that time he was the Irish distance champion in the senior division. Now, Providence Coach Bob Amato says, Treacy is an international-class runner...
...born Leopold Antony Stokowski in the Marylebone section of London in 1882, the son of a Polish cabinetmaker and a mother of Irish descent. They managed to scrape up enough money to send him to Oxford and to the Royal College of Music. He got a job as an organist in a London church, then moved to St. Bartholomew's in New York. In 1909 he became the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony. He was young (27) and virtually untried, but magisterially handsome and already with the mark of genius upon him. Under the gaze of his stern blue...