Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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At the National A. A. U. Championships the Green scored victories in the sprint med- ley and mile relays. Quigley, Gormon and Rogers competed on both winning combina- tions. Joe Cianciabella completed the sprint medley team and Dean Noll filled out the mile relay foursome. Next on the calendar was the I. C. -i-A. title games in JVIadison Square Garden. Both N. Y. U. and Manhattan were going all out for the team title in this meet, as both teams had four previous titles and required but one more win to retire permanently the cham- pionship trophy. The Violets and the Jaspers engaged in a bitter scoring duel that lasted until the final event and left the forty other competing col- O ' Keeje rounds the lhne-? iile mark. l in y Cross Country. 241

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- iW O ' Tnole ill Practice. nint: for the N. Y. A. C. O ' Toole fell victim to the terrihc finish of the N. Y. A. C. ' s Jim Rafterty. Phil Einsman and Tom Byrnes placed third and fointh in the 60 yard hitjh hurdles and Byrnes came baek with a second place etfort in the 70 yard low hurdles. On the following weekend Coach Eastment was really in a dither sending representatives to three different meets. The Philadelphia Inquirer Meet, the Boston Knights of Colum- bus Meet and the West Point Relays kept everyone on the run. At Philly, the mile relay squad of Al Rogers, Gerald Alnwick, John Gorman and John Quigley turned in a record performance of 3:27.5 on a slow track. Ed O ' Toole pushed Oklahoma ' s Forest Efaw to a record in the two mile event. At Boston Ed Walsh placed third behind Gil Dodds and Tommy Quinn in a mile race which saw the parson returning to com- petition with a 4:09.1 mile. A mile relay team composed of Bill Ryan, John Gorman, Al Rogers and John Quigley turned in a 3:24.3 Al Rogt ' tu tfJt ' ntjyk. victory. The Jasper two mile quartet followed a record breaking Fordham team to the tape. In the N. Y. A. C. Meet the Jasper mile relay team continued its winning ways by virtue of Johnny Quigley ' s brilliant anchor leg. Quigley started ten yards behind Ford- ham ' s Hal McDowell and caught him at the tape, to the delight of the 15,000 Garden spectators. The two mile relay again scored a second behind the Ram foursome. 240

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CoachLS A r let;es far in arrears. N. ' . U. emerged the victor by four slim points, and thereby be- came the first team to gain permanent pos- session of the trophy. Individual winners for Manhattan in- cluded Joe Cianciabeila, who rocketed to ictory in the 60 yard dash in record-tying time, and blond Bill Atkinson, who copped the 1000 yard run. The mile relay combine of Gormon, Noll, Rogers and Quigley con- tinued their winning ways. Closing the indoor campaign, the Jaspers competed m the Knights of Columbus Meet. Once again, the mile relay team finished on top. Atkinson, Cianciabeila, Quigley, Walsh and O ' Toole scored in special events. Riiptr. HiijJJi:. Dllllll. jjckbll Jlld CoultS 242