Place # 186: Eamonn Coghlan, Villanova
Place # 186: Eamonn Coghlan, Villanova
Bad Wigins wrote:
How is it remarkable that two different groups of young people were long haired hippie riff raff in the early 70's, except Bill Dellinger who was on the verge of sudden advanced old age?
That's a little harsh. Middle age, maybe.
Because why toot your own horn repeatedly? We saw it the first time (and I believe the second and third times, if anyone is counting how many times you've posted this).[/quote]
What a loser. I haven't seen it before and I like the post.
Just go away you jealous loser.
God we were a bunch of hairy mofos back then. I was looking at my college yearbook recently (from about that time), and saw that the photographer wasn't able to get all of some people's hair in the pics. Not just Afros/Isros, either.
runn wrote:
What a loser. I haven't seen it before and I like the post.
Just go away you jealous loser.
He'll never go away.
I see a 'Richard Salazar' from Navy in 69 place. Is that Alberto's brother? I know he has an older brother that went into one of the military academies and also ran. Richard could have been changed from Ricardo, which if I recall could be his given name.
Yes, Richard/Ricardo is Alberto's brother. The next year (1975) Alberto, still in high school, would run the AAUs at the Naval Academy, where is brother attended.
George Atlas wrote:
Was that the year the Western Kentucky team were staying in a motel and late at night a car drove right into the motel room where Rose and Staynings were sleeping?
...and now...the rest of the story.
From Tony Staynings:
"It was near Boston, we were up in that area working over the 1973 Christmas break. The motel we were staying at had a bar. A guy got drunk, passed out in his car; woke up and put his vehicle (Station Wagon) into drive and floored it. He hit the sidewalk and went through window landing on me and my bed. Quite the wake up at approx. 2 in the morning."
Malmo, thanks for posting - one of the reasons I check the boards is in hopes of finding interesting bits of running history. Stuff like this. So keep it up...
The thing is .... it was 39 years and 11 months ago. When I first saw the thread I asked myself .... why did they run the NCAA in October?
Great stuff, as far as I'm concerned this thread can be run brand new every year ....
OK, next time I won't round up 39y10m to 40 years! ;-)
Hey Malmo, how did that race play out for you ... were you ever in the top 25? Did you take a shot at All-American (for all I know you were, did they have the two All-American teams at the time?)
1974 was the first year for back-door All-Americas. The 25th American got All-America. I was 39th place -- the 25th American.
Before 1974 the top 25 made All-America.
How about corresponding bands for 3rd, 4th, and 5th place?