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	HickokSports.com - Biography - Frank Keaney
		Keaney played four sports at Bates College in Maine, graduating in 1911, then coached at high schools in New England until 1920, when he and his wife Winifred went to Rhode Island.
		Keaney taught chemistry, coached five sports, and was athletic director; Winifred coached all the women's teams for thirteen years and was a physical education instructor.
		Keaney never won a major championships, but his teams went to four National Invitation Tournaments and barely lost, 46-45, to the University of Kentucky in the 1947 NIT.
	www.hickoksports.com /biograph/keaneyfrank.shtml (233 words)

	Keaney’ fond farewell
		Keaney is responsible for turning a game of patterned plodding into 40 minutes of frenzied excitement while overflow crowds, delighted at the spectacle of racehorse basketball, howled their approval.
		Keaney retired from active coaching in 1948 and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1960.
		Keaney, who is a charter member of the University of Rhode Island Athletic Hall of Fame, passed away on Oct. 10, 1967, at the age of 81.
	www.advance.uri.edu /pacer/april2002/story5.htm (384 words)

	Institute for International Sport - Scholar Athlete Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A fascinating multidimensional man who made an indelible mark as a college athlete, coach and chemistry professor, Frank William Keaney is best remembered as the creator of the "fast-break" in basketball, which he devised in the 1930s while the head coach at Rhode Island State College (now the University of Rhode Island).
		During the 1930s and 40s, Keaney's teams, made up primarily of Rhode Islanders, were usually the highest-scoring, and also the most popular, in the country, delighting fans with their so-called "firehouse" style of wide-open play centered around the fast-break.
		Keaney died on October 10, 1967 at the age of 81 and was laid to rest in Fernwood Cemetary just less than 200 yards away from the Institute for International Sport and the University of Rhode Island Campus.
	www.internationalsport.com /sa_hof/hof_rihonorees00.html (2786 words)

	Frank Keaney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	Baseball Coach Frank Leoni Signs Three-Year Contract Extension :: Leoni has won back-to-back Atlantic 10 Coach of the ...
		Baseball Coach Frank Leoni Signs Three-Year Contract Extension :: Leoni has won back-to-back Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year honors and led the Rams to a school-record 35 wins in 2003.
		KINGSTON, R.I. Baseball coach Frank Leoni has signed a three-year contract extension, it was announced by Tom McElroy, director of athletics.
		The Rams set a school record for wins (35) and Leoni passed Frank Keaney to become the winningest baseball coach in URI history this year.
	www.collegesports.com /sports/m-basebl/stories/080304aab.html (474 words)

	Naples Daily News: Business
		Fortune and partners Frank Keaney and Tim McCoy recently acquired the Sand Bar restaurant, which is popular with locals as well as visitors.
		With him was colleague Frank Keaney, now a partner in the Sand Bar venture along with a third partner, Tim McCoy.
		Keaney, Fortune said, also came from a poor background (in Ireland), but eventually flourished with IBM.
	staging.naplesnews.com /npdn/ma_business/article/0,2071,NPDN_14914_3101238,00.html (780 words)

	Player Bio: Frank W. Keaney :: Genrel
		FRANK W. "MENTY" KEANEY, the legendary basketball, football, and baseball coach, graduated from Bates College in 1911 and came to RISC in 1920.
		He is credited with inventing the fast break in basketball and compiled a 401-124 record in 28 years on the court.
		Keaney Gymnasium was dedicated in his honor in 1953, and the school color, "Keaney Blue," was his creation.
	www.fansonly.com /schools/uri/genrel/keaney_frankw00.html (177 words)

	BatesNow \| May 30, 2002 \| Coffey honored by Institute for International Sport
		The Keaney Award, presented every other year by the IIS, is given to educators who personify the scholar-athlete ideal.
		The Keaney Award is given in honor of legendary URI basketball coach and educator Frank W. Keaney.
		Keaney achieved national renown in the 1930s and '40s as the coach of the Rhode Island State (now the University of Rhode Island) men's basketball team.
	www.bates.edu /x24712.xml (397 words)

	BasketballBoards.net - Rhode Island fans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Keaney was also a chemistry professor, back in the days when coaches wore two hats.
		Keaney blue is named after former Hall of Fame Coach Frank Keaney, the inventor while at Rhode Island of the basketball fastbreak.
		Keaney, also a chemistry professor, formulated the color himself in the URI chemistry labs.
	basketballboards.net /forum/archive/index.php/t-60675.html (275 words)

	University of Rhode Island Virtual Campus Tour: Keaney Gym (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Keaney Gymnasium, home of the Rhode Island men's and women's basketball teams and volleyball team, opened in 1953.
		It was named in honor of the University's long-time basketball, football and baseball coach, Frank Keaney.
		Keaney coached at URI from 1920 until 1956 when he retired.
	www.uri.edu /home/tour/ath01.html (90 words)

	Frank Keaney Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Known as the architect of modern "run-and-shoot" basketball, Frank Keaney believed in an up tempo style that employed a fast breaking offense and a full-court defense.
		Keaney's innovative tactics enabled his 1939 Rhode Island club to become the first college team to score better than 50 points per game.
		In 1943, Rhode Island averaged over two points a minute (80.7 ppg), earning the nickname, "The Firehouse Gang." In 27 seasons at Rhode Island, Keaney never had one losing season (403-124) and led his club to four NIT appearances.
	www.hoophall.com /halloffamers/Keaney.htm (286 words)

	Rhode Island Rams - The Official Athletic Site for the University of Rhode Island
		Keaney Gymnasium, with a seating capacity of 3,385, is the home of Rhode Island's men's and women's basketball teams and the volleyball team.
		The facility is named in honor of longtime coach Frank Keaney, inventor of the fast break.
		Named in honor of the University's long-time basketball, football and baseball coach, Frank Keaney, inventor of the fast break and the Keaney Ring.
	www.gorhody.com /genrel/061900aaa.html (612 words)

	Projo.com \| Providence \| URI Sports
		Later, in 11 years as URI basketball coach, he took URI to the NCAA tournament twice and compiled a record of wins surpassed only by that of his own coach, Frank Keaney.
		Calverley found national fame at a time when Keaney was revolutionizing basketball with his fast, racehorse style for the team known as the Running Rams.
		Keaney, one of the game's true visionaries, believed in fast-break basketball, and to a player as skilled as Mr.
	www.projo.com /uri/content/projo_20031021_calverley.75c6b.html (1261 words)

	Prof Blood and the Wonder Teams - Contact Information
		Frank took his guru Freeman and what he learned from him to successful stints at St. John's University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the NBA's Philadelphia Warriors, and to the University of South Carolina.
		Would it be called a coincidence that Frank Keaney (1921-1948) at Rhode Island State College eventually caught the nation's attention with a fastbreaking, high scoring, full court pressing style of play that produced teams scoring "2 points-a-minute"?
		Keaney really didn't get his system up to full speed until after the Passaic Wonder Team years, but he is still considered the progenitor of racehorse style basketball.
	www.profblood.com /excerpt.html (2872 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Keaney
		Dublin football boss Tommy Lyons is of a similar opinion, keen to ensure both Shane Ryan and Conal Keaney lend their weight to the footballing squad.
		At a County level the immediate futures of Shane Ryan and Conal Keaney are causing both Tommy Lyons and Humphrey Kelleher headaches, with both wanting them in...
		Jim Keaney, a member of the group formed to work for a public purchase, said the group has received a letter from a Lehman Brothers official, which said, "If a...
	nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/K/Keaney.shtml (920 words)

	Institute for International Sport - Scholar Athlete Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Quirk was elected president of his junior and senior class and student council at South and ranked third in his class as a senior.
		In 1953 Tootell succeeded Frank Keaney, his long-time friend and colleague, as Athletic Director at URI.
		Very active in campus life, Trumpetto held leadership roles in several organizations and was a member of the ROTC and the Scabbard and Blade Honor Society.
	www.internationalsport.com /sa_hof/hof_rihonorees.html (6341 words)

	Re: Keaney family of Ireland
		My father is Francis Keaney (Frank) from Toothfield, Manorhamilton - just down the road from Glenfarne.
		He says he knew a John Joe Keaney from Glenfarne (which may be your uncle) and thinks he used to have a little grocery store on the road to Glenfarne from Manorhamilton.
		My father's sister Kitty Keaney married another Frank Keany (spelled with no e) from Glenfarne.
	genforum.genealogy.com /keaney/messages/20.html (123 words)

	Hendersonville Times-News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		About 80 years ago, a basketball coach named Frank Keaney developed an offensive strategy called the fast break in a tiny building called Rodman Gym-nasium on the University of Rhode Island campus.
		Keaney's "point-a-minute" style of roundball is the ideal showcase for Bishop's skills.
		Averaging 5.0 steals and an area-high 18.7 points a game, Bishop, one of the fastest players in the mountains, keyed Hendersonville's pressure attack with a relentless pursuit of the hoop.
	www.hendersonvillenews.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050403/NEWS/504030377/1008/SPORTS01 (490 words)

	Baseball Coach Frank Leoni Signs Three-Year Contract Extension :: Leoni has won back-to-back Atlantic 10 Coach of the ...
		Baseball Coach Frank Leoni Signs Three-Year Contract Extension :: Leoni has won back-to-back Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year honors and led the Rams to a school-record 35 wins in 2004.
		Leoni has won back-to-back Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year honors and led the Rams to a school-record 35 wins in 2004.
		Leoni led the Rams to a 35-20-1 mark and a 20-4 mark in conference play in 2004.
	gorhody.collegesports.com /sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/080304aaa.html (517 words)

	Hoop Hall History Page
		Riley was selected by Portland in the NBA expansion draft on May 11, 1970.
		University of Rhode Island legendary Coach Frank Keaney passed away on this date.
		Hall of Fame Coach Howard Cann of NYU fame was born on this day in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
	www.hoophall.com /history/oct_history.htm (933 words)

	NE Basketball Hall of Fame at Keaney Gym
		The newly created New England Basketball Hall of Fame, to be housed at Keaney Gymnasium on the Kingston Campus, will see its first class of inductees honored next fall.
		Keaney Gymnasium is named for the legendary former coach, Frank Keaney, who is credited with revolutionizing basketball by devising the fast break in the 1930s, and for turning then Rhode Island State into a national basketball power in the ‘30s and ‘40s.
		R.I. Architect Ken Filarski, who designed the International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame on the URI campus, has been commissioned to design the exhibit area of Keaney Gymnasium for the Hall of Fame.
	www.advance.uri.edu /pacer/april2002/story1.htm (320 words)

	A-list message, Re: [A-List] Re: Andre Gunder Frank article
		Andre Gunder Frank wrote: > thamkks but no thanks.
		Re: [A-List] Re: Andre Gunder Frank article, Louis Proyect Fri 04 Jun 2004, 00:37 GMT
		Re: [A-List] Andre Gunder Frank article, Michael Keaney Fri 04 Jun 2004, 10:41 GMT
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/a-list/2004w22/msg00061.htm (302 words)

	Re: searching for Keaney info
		My Greatgrandfather, Bartholomew Patrick Keaney was born in South Boston on July 6 1892.
		BPK married Mary Margaret Mahern and had 3 sons and raised them in the Rosindale section of Boston.
		If you think there may be a connection between Mark and Bartholomew, or if anyone knows of another Keaney family of Boston, please e-mail me. Thank you.
	genforum.genealogy.com /keaney/messages/21.html (146 words)

	University Of Rhode Island To Induct 10 Into Athletic Hall of Fame :: The induction ceremony will be held Oct. 11 as ...
		Previously, a plaque with the names of all inductees displayed in the lobby of Keaney Gym, the new Hall of Fame will include pictures and biographies of each inductee.
		She averaged 16.4 points per game, an incredible achievement at the time, under women's basketball coach Winifred Keaney, wife of legendary men's coach Frank Keaney.
		She was the first Kingston coed to simultaneously hold the presidencies of both the Women's Student Government and Pan-Hellenic Association, the inter-sorority governing council.
	www.gorhody.com /genrel/100103aac.html (2214 words)

	Public review set for proposed URI sports complex: 1/25/98
		Governor Lincoln Almond, the only URI alumnus ever elected Rhode Island governor, is an enthusiastic Rams basketball fan who is often seen in the stands at games, usually accompanied by his wife, Marilyn Almond, also a URI grad.
		The deteriorating Keaney Gymnasium, the 4,000-seat home to URI basketball, opened in 1953.
		It is named for Frank Keaney, the greatest coach in the university's history.
	www.s-t.com /daily/01-98/01-25-98/a03sr019.htm (505 words)

	Baseball Puts Batz And Zuercher On All-New England First Team, Four Players On Second Team; Leoni Named New England ...
		KINGSTON, R.I. Senior first baseman Dan Batz (Mohnton, Pa.) and sophomore pitcher Zach Zuercher (Warwick, R.I.) earned first-team All-New England honors and Rhode Island head coach Frank Leoni (Cranston, R.I.) was named the New England Coach of the Year in voting conducted by the coaches.
		The Rams won the first Atlantic 10 regular season title in school history and lost in the finals of the Atlantic 10 Championship.
		The former Rhode Island shortstop who finished his 12th season as head coach of the Rams, has the school-record for career wins with 332, passing legendary coach and ABCA Hall of Famer Frank Keaney.
	www.collegesports.com /sports/m-basebl/stories/060304abs.html (870 words)

	LEO/SPORTS BITS AND PIECES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		But old-timers might remember that Rhode Island was one of the first great powers of basketball.
		Back in the 1930s, coach Frank Keaney introduced a new style of play to basketball, with long up-court passes, fast breaks and plenty of shooting.
		Rhode Island was the first team to average a point a minute, or 40 points in a 40-minute game.
	www.louisville.com /leo/bits318.shtml (759 words)

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		Frank J. McGuire, deceased - New York City, N.Y., coach
		Frank Morgenweck, deceased - Egg Harbor, N.J., contributor
		Frank W. Keaney, deceased - Boston, Mass., coach
	www.gethoops.com /main_hall_of_fame.htm (1268 words)

	Sale of land means grand slam for URI
		When asked why they give so much to the University, David responded that without help from Rhode Island State College (the former name of URI), he wouldn't have been able to stay in school.
		Help came in the form of legendary coach Frank Keaney who helped David get a job working in the cafeteria which paid for his meals and brought his tuition bill down to $180 each semester.
		Hike, a three-year letterman and star catcher for Frank Keaney's baseball team, was co-captain of the team.
	advance.uri.edu /pacer/march2001/story7.htm (853 words)

	Zeal.com - Site Profile for Keaney, Frank - Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Keaney, Frank - Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame > Profile
		Keaney, Frank - Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
		Former coach with the University of Rhode Island never had a losing season in 28 years.
	live.looksmart.com /website/profile.jhtml?cid=10017342&wid=100054188 (102 words)

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