UCG Men's Athletics Team, 1968
Item
Format
JPEG
Title
UCG Men's Athletics Team, 1968
Identifier
VH0004
Depiction
Seventeen young men, in three rows, dressed for a sports event, and a priest in black, against a background of trees.
Description
In 1968 the University's Athletics team took part in the inter-university competition, as they had done since it was first held in 1873. Some of the team seen here were not wearing the UCG Athletic strip because of a shortage of singlets.
Pictured, from left to right:
Back row: D. Geraghty, J. Sheil, P. O'Callaghan, M. Conlon, K. Naughton, [?] , Fr Tom Kyne.
Middle row: C. Cunnane, B. Geraghty, L. Ó Murchú, J. Scanlon, M. Coleman, V. McNicholas.
Front row: [?], N. Matthews, H. Rowan, [?], [?].
The first intervarsity athletics competition was held in 1873, on the Mardyke in the Cork Cricket grounds. 'This was not only the first intercollegiate athletics meeting held in Ireland, but also the world’s first national intervarsity athletics meeting' (Athletics Ireland), as distinct from an athletics competition between two universities, inaugurated by Cambridge and Oxford in 1864.
In 1968, the year of this photo, UCG had 4 athletics successes, all of them in women's events. Fionnuala Lysaght won the Women's 100m in a time of 15.5 seconds, and the 400m in 64.6 seconds; in the Cross-Country Women's Individual competition Marion Keating came first and the Women's Team won the team competition.
Pictured, from left to right:
Back row: D. Geraghty, J. Sheil, P. O'Callaghan, M. Conlon, K. Naughton, [?] , Fr Tom Kyne.
Middle row: C. Cunnane, B. Geraghty, L. Ó Murchú, J. Scanlon, M. Coleman, V. McNicholas.
Front row: [?], N. Matthews, H. Rowan, [?], [?].
The first intervarsity athletics competition was held in 1873, on the Mardyke in the Cork Cricket grounds. 'This was not only the first intercollegiate athletics meeting held in Ireland, but also the world’s first national intervarsity athletics meeting' (Athletics Ireland), as distinct from an athletics competition between two universities, inaugurated by Cambridge and Oxford in 1864.
In 1968, the year of this photo, UCG had 4 athletics successes, all of them in women's events. Fionnuala Lysaght won the Women's 100m in a time of 15.5 seconds, and the 400m in 64.6 seconds; in the Cross-Country Women's Individual competition Marion Keating came first and the Women's Team won the team competition.
References
Personal communication: John Sheil
Publications:
Athletics Ireland, 'Irish Universities Athletics Champions 1873-2020', compiled by Pierce O'Callaghan, Eric Brady, Brian Foley & Cyril Smyth (2020), at https://www.athleticsireland.ie/downloads/statistics/Irish_Universities_ROH_1872-2020.pdf. Accessed 3 April, 2023.
Contributor
Bibliographic Citation
J. Sheil, J. Conroy, ‘UCG Men's Athletics Team, 1968’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 13585, Archival Record Id VHRS
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
Period
1960s
Category
b&w
group
off-campus
outdoors
Subject
Keywords
sportswear
Language
English
Publisher
University of Galway Library
Rights
This image may be used for non-commercial purposes under CC BY-NC-SA see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/