Championship | Colours T&F |
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Venue | College Park |
Date | 1961-06-01 |
Host | TCD |
Note | The 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. |
Rank | College | 1 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 |
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1 | TCD | 4 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 87 |
2 | UCD | 7 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 73 |
Rank | College | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | TCD | 8 | 9 | 8 | 25 |
2 | UCD | 7 | 6 | 6 | 19 |
Place | Athlete | College | Mark | Points |
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1 | Victor Manning | UCD | 10.00 | 5 |
2 | Robert Vernon "Bob" Francis | TCD | 10.20 | 3 |
3 | Eddie Thornton | UCD | 10.30 | 2 |
4 | Gerald Rex Mason | TCD | 10.50 | 1 |
Place | Athlete | College | Mark | Points | Note |
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1 | Alan McNeil Scott | TCD | 16.00 | 5 | |
2 | Derek John Tyler | TCD | 16.50 | 3 | |
3 | Tom Kilcoyne | UCD | 17.30 | 2 | |
4 | Eddie Thornton | UCD | DNF | NS |
Place | Athlete | College | Mark | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Victor Manning | UCD | 22.70 | 5 |
2 | Robert Vernon "Bob" Francis | TCD | 22.80 | 3 |
3 | Robert J.R. "Ron" Kirkham | TCD | 23.30 | 2 |
4 | Patrick "Pat" Gill | UCD | 24.20 | 1 |
Place | Athlete | College | Mark | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Robert Vernon "Bob" Francis | TCD | 49.00 | 5 |
2 | Donal Cullen | UCD | 50.00 | 3 |
3 | Colin J.G. Shillington | TCD | 50.10 | 2 |
4 | Brendan Dempsey | UCD | 53.40 | 1 |
Place | Athlete | College | Mark | Points |
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1 | Colin J.G. Shillington | TCD | 1:54.80 | 5 |
2 | Paul Mary Toomey | TCD | 1:56.20 | 3 |
3 | Donal Cullen | UCD | 1:57.50 | 2 |
4 | Michael "Mick" Clancy | UCD | 2:04.60 | 1 |
Place | Athlete | College | Mark | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Colin J.G. Shillington | TCD | 4:25.00 | 5 |
2 | John Hickey | UCD | 4:28.70 | 3 |
3 | Henry Dermot O'Clery | TCD | 4:31.30 | 2 |
4 | Cecil Smith | UCD | 4:32.00 | 1 |
Place | Athlete | College | Mark | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Michael Hoey | UCD | 14:29.80 | 5 |
2 | George "Brian" Roe | TCD | 15:14.00 | 3 |
3 | Anthony Ralph Sparshott | TCD | 15:15.00 | 2 |
4 | John McKenna | UCD | 15:18.10 | 1 |
Place | Leg | Athlete | College | Mark | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Robert Vernon "Bob" Francis | TCD | 43.90 | 5 |
1 | 2 | Gerald Rex Mason | TCD | 43.90 | 5 |
1 | 3 | Henry Kinmy Kennedy-Skipton | TCD | 43.90 | 5 |
1 | 4 | Robert J.R. "Ron" Kirkham | TCD | 43.90 | 5 |
2 | 1 | Tom Kilcoyne | UCD | 44.40 | 2 |
2 | 2 | Iognáid G. "Iggy" Ó Muircheartaigh | UCD | 44.40 | 2 |
2 | 3 | Patrick "Pat" Gill | UCD | 44.40 | 2 |
2 | 4 | Victor Manning | UCD | 44.40 | 2 |
Place | Athlete | College | Mark | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Patrick "Pat" Gill | UCD | 21′8″ | 5 |
2 | Tjerand Tormod Lunde | TCD | 21′3″ | 3 |
3 | Joseph "Joe" Enwezor | UCD | 20′5″ | 2 |
4 | Babafemi Oseleye Osoba | TCD | 20′1¾″ | 1 |
Place | Athlete | College | Mark | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Joseph "Joe" Enwezor | UCD | 44′4½″ | 5 |
2 | Babafemi Oseleye Osoba | TCD | 41′8½″ | 3 |
3 | Henry Dermot O'Clery | TCD | 41′3″ | 2 |
4 | Tom Kilcoyne | UCD | 39′2″ | 1 |
Place | Athlete | College | Mark | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tjerand Tormod Lunde | TCD | 5′10″ | 5 |
2 | Dennis Okoro | UCD | 5′8″ | 3 |
3 | Michael Mullett | UCD | 5′8″ | 2 |
4 | John Heatley Leeson | TCD | 5′6″ | 1 |
Place | Athlete | College | Mark | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tjerand Tormod Lunde | TCD | 11′0″ | 5 |
2 | John Heatley Leeson | TCD | 10′6″ | 3 |
3 | Denis Twomey | UCD | 10′0″ | 2 |
4 | Liam O'Carroll | UCD | 10′0″ | 1 |
Place | Athlete | College | Mark | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kevin Prendergast | UCD | 45′8¼″ | 5 |
2 | Benjamin Aima Ovbiagele | TCD | 45′5½″ | 3 |
3 | Hugh Dominic O'Callaghan | TCD | 44′2″ | 2 |
4 | Brian O'Halloran | UCD | 42′2¾″ | 1 |
Place | Athlete | College | Mark | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kevin Prendergast | UCD | 138′11½″ | 5 |
2 | Brian O'Halloran | UCD | 138′8″ | 3 |
3 | Benjamin Aima Ovbiagele | TCD | 130′8½″ | 2 |
4 | Hugh Dominic O'Callaghan | TCD | 115′2¾″ | 1 |
Place | Athlete | College | Mark | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Henry Kinmy Kennedy-Skipton | TCD | 205′6″ | 5 |
2 | Denis Twomey | UCD | 197′1″ | 3 |
3 | Tjerand Tormod Lunde | TCD | 165′11″ | 2 |
4 | Frank Mulreany | UCD | 143′5″ | 1 |