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1961-06-01 Colours Track and Field

ChampionshipColours T&F
VenueCollege Park
Date1961-06-01
HostTCD
NoteThe story of the splits in Irish athletics between 1925 and 1938 is a complex one. Suffice it is say that the consequences for inter-collegiate athletics were that Queen's University could not participate from 1934 through 1967 and in the case of TCD from 1938 through 1961. While TCD did participate in the Intervarsities' Championships in 1951, this only led to a further closing of the door by the athletic authorities. However a DUHAC-led initiative through the AAUE led to the IAAF granting permission for a closed inter-university contest between TCD and UCD in May 1961. Frenetic arrangements followed. On Thursday 1 June 1961 the first officially sanctioned Intervarsity Match since 1937 involving Trinity College Dublin, affiliated to the AAUE, and University College Dublin, affiliated to the NACAI, took place in College Park. It was an event that would help to lead to the formation of Bord Lúthchleas na hÉireann in 1967 and a healing of much, but not all, of the conflict between the AAUE and the NACAI. In line with meetings between TCD and UCD in other sports, e.g., rugby, lawn tennis, hockey, sailing, this annual athletics fixture became known colloquially as "The Colours Match". Save for a slight North-Westerly wind, conditions for this inaugural inter-university athletics meeting were ideal. Such was the public enthusiasm for the match that in excess of 5,000 spectators watched the events. The fixture comprised 15 events with two competitors from each College per event, with scoring as 5-3-2-1 for the four placings, except in the 4 x 110y relay with 5 and 2 pts. TCD recorded 8 wins to UCD's seven. Double individual wins were recorded: for UCD, Victor Maniak (Manning) - 100y and 220y and Kevin Prendergast - Shot Putt and Discus, and for TCD, Colin Shillington - 880y and 1 mile and Tjerand Lunde - High Jump and Pole Vault. Trinity won by 87 pts to 73 pts for UCD. However, the contest was closer than the match score suggests as the favourite in the 120y hurdles, Eddie Thornton (UCD), was a DNF through suffering injury and UCD's long jumper Joe Enwezor tore a muscle during the event. Both had been first choices for UCD's relay quartet. Nonetheless, more importantly the match was a victory for commonsense. Without doubt athletics was the winner of the first Colours Match, with great enjoyment for athletes, officials, legislators and spectators.
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Points

Male

RankCollege1
0
0
y
1
2
0
y
H
2
2
0
y
4
4
0
y
8
8
0
y
M
i
l
e
3

M
i
l
e
s
4
x
1
1
0
y
L
J
T
J
H
J
P
V
S
P
D
T
J
T
o
Total
1TCD48578755456853787
2UCD72643462765368473

Medal Tables

Male

RankCollegeGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1TCD89825
2UCD76619

Male

100y

Final

PlaceAthleteCollegeMarkPoints
1Victor ManningUCD10.005
2Robert Vernon "Bob" FrancisTCD10.203
3Eddie ThorntonUCD10.302
4Gerald Rex MasonTCD10.501

120y Hurdles

Final

PlaceAthleteCollegeMarkPointsNote
1Alan McNeil ScottTCD16.005 
2Derek John TylerTCD16.503 
3Tom KilcoyneUCD17.302 
4Eddie ThorntonUCDDNF NS

220y

Final

PlaceAthleteCollegeMarkPoints
1Victor ManningUCD22.705
2Robert Vernon "Bob" FrancisTCD22.803
3Robert J.R. "Ron" KirkhamTCD23.302
4Patrick "Pat" GillUCD24.201

440y

Final

PlaceAthleteCollegeMarkPoints
1Robert Vernon "Bob" FrancisTCD49.005
2Donal CullenUCD50.003
3Colin J.G. ShillingtonTCD50.102
4Brendan DempseyUCD53.401

880y

Final

PlaceAthleteCollegeMarkPoints
1Colin J.G. ShillingtonTCD1:54.805
2Paul Mary ToomeyTCD1:56.203
3Donal CullenUCD1:57.502
4Michael "Mick" ClancyUCD2:04.601

1 Mile

Final

PlaceAthleteCollegeMarkPoints
1Colin J.G. ShillingtonTCD4:25.005
2John HickeyUCD4:28.703
3Henry Dermot O'CleryTCD4:31.302
4Cecil SmithUCD4:32.001

3 Miles

Final

PlaceAthleteCollegeMarkPoints
1Michael HoeyUCD14:29.805
2George "Brian" RoeTCD15:14.003
3Anthony Ralph SparshottTCD15:15.002
4John McKennaUCD15:18.101

4 x 110y Relay

Final

PlaceLegAthleteCollegeMarkPoints
11Robert Vernon "Bob" FrancisTCD43.905
12Gerald Rex MasonTCD43.905
13Henry Kinmy Kennedy-SkiptonTCD43.905
14Robert J.R. "Ron" KirkhamTCD43.905
21Tom KilcoyneUCD44.402
22Iognáid G. "Iggy" Ó MuircheartaighUCD44.402
23Patrick "Pat" GillUCD44.402
24Victor ManningUCD44.402

Long Jump

Final

PlaceAthleteCollegeMarkPoints
1Patrick "Pat" GillUCD21′8″5
2Tjerand Tormod LundeTCD21′3″3
3Joseph "Joe" EnwezorUCD20′5″2
4Babafemi Oseleye OsobaTCD20′1¾″1

Triple Jump

Final

PlaceAthleteCollegeMarkPoints
1Joseph "Joe" EnwezorUCD44′4½″5
2Babafemi Oseleye OsobaTCD41′8½″3
3Henry Dermot O'CleryTCD41′3″2
4Tom KilcoyneUCD39′2″1

High Jump

Final

PlaceAthleteCollegeMarkPoints
1Tjerand Tormod LundeTCD5′10″5
2Dennis OkoroUCD5′8″3
3Michael MullettUCD5′8″2
4John Heatley LeesonTCD5′6″1

Pole Vault

Final

PlaceAthleteCollegeMarkPoints
1Tjerand Tormod LundeTCD11′0″5
2John Heatley LeesonTCD10′6″3
3Denis TwomeyUCD10′0″2
4Liam O'CarrollUCD10′0″1

Shot Putt

Final

PlaceAthleteCollegeMarkPoints
1Kevin PrendergastUCD45′8¼″5
2Benjamin Aima OvbiageleTCD45′5½″3
3Hugh Dominic O'CallaghanTCD44′2″2
4Brian O'HalloranUCD42′2¾″1

Discus

Final

PlaceAthleteCollegeMarkPoints
1Kevin PrendergastUCD138′11½″5
2Brian O'HalloranUCD138′8″3
3Benjamin Aima OvbiageleTCD130′8½″2
4Hugh Dominic O'CallaghanTCD115′2¾″1

Javelin (old)

Final

PlaceAthleteCollegeMarkPoints
1Henry Kinmy Kennedy-SkiptonTCD205′6″5
2Denis TwomeyUCD197′1″3
3Tjerand Tormod LundeTCD165′11″2
4Frank MulreanyUCD143′5″1