Cornell University Athletics

He placed eighth overall at the 1921 Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) cross country championships, as Cornell won its second consecutive Intercollegiate team title in capturing six of the first nine places out of 75 contestants. In addition to winning the Intercollegiates that year, Cornell went undefeated in dual and invitational competition. Irish placed 15th at the IC4A cross country championships in 1920, as the five Cornell men who counted in the team scoring all finished among the first 18 runners through the chute. He was elected captain of the 1922 cross country team and lettered as a member of the track team in 1921, running the mile and two mile events. He ran the anchor leg of the second-place four-mile relay at the Penn Relays in 1921. The former Auburn, N.Y., native died in 1981 in Baltimore, Md.