UCG 1950-1955 Intervarsity Basketball Champions

Format

JPEG

Title

Identifier

VHJ0027

Depiction

A group of seven men (three standing at rear and four seated) with one of the seated men holding a trophy. All of the men wear t-shirts on which is written UCG, and a different number, from 1 to 7.

Description

This image is of the UCG Basketball team, who were Intervarsity Basketball Champions from 1950-53. The team was largely comprised of American students who had come to UCG to study Medicine in the post-WWII period, some of them as part of the G.I. Bill. The only non-American in the group is John McLoughlin, who was from Liverpool. The team persuaded one of their landladies to cut out the letters and numbers in maroon-coloured fabric, and sew them onto their white t-shirts, ensuring that the team made quite an impression on their opponents from the other Irish universities.

People

Standing rear, l.-r.: John Kennedy, Tom Santacroce, Michael McLoughlin. Seated, l.-r.: John Hession, Ben Corballis, Don Roach, Luke O'Connor.

References

Interview conducted with Dr Ben Corballis for The University in Living Memory Oral History Project, 2019.
J. Uí Chionna, An Oral History of University College Galway, 1930-1980: A University in Living Memory (Four Courts Press, Dublin 2019).

Contributor

Dr Ben Corballis

event

Sports Event

Bibliographic Citation

B. Corballis, J. Uí Chionna, ‘UCG 1950-1955 Intervarsity Basketball Champions’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14783, Archival Record Id VHRS

Text in image

The letters U C G written on the team kit of the players depicted.

Spatial Coverage

Unknown

Temporal Coverage

1950 - 1953

Period

1950s

Subject

University of Galway

Sports

Students

Basketball

Insignia

Keywords

American sports

Intervarsity competition

champions

Language

English

Creator