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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...
Both of the Crimson's highly-touted opponents were ready, however. Providence's Treacy and Degan had already run 24-minute races in a meet at Franklin Park last week, and UMass is perenially tough...
Treacy and Degan slowed up in the closing stretch, choosing to jog across the finish line in triplicate with Dillon in 24:01. Minuteman Mike Quinn checked in at 24:17 for fourth place...
That is certainly a colorful, if somewhat inaccurate, description of the two leading lights of the much-feared and respected Providence cross-country team. In fact senior John Treacy and his precocious freshman teammate Gerry Degan are far from being even remotely antagonistic. Both hail from the same town in Ireland--Waterford (pop. about 35,000), that is, the county seat of Waterford Co. (pop. a little more...
Billy Southworth had done a good job of pulling himself up by his bootstraps. He first took over the Cards in 1929, and Degan by putting his foot in his mouth. The first day he read a highhanded riot act to the club, and Veteran Chick Hafey whispered to tobacco-chewing Jim Bot-tomley, "Don't look now, but there's a hell on the job." Southworth got fired in midseason...