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In cross country, Dick Donahue won the New England Championship twice. He finished third overall at the IC4A Championship in New York City, the top finisher of the Eastern entries. Donahue was undefeated in dual meets for three years, setting course records at Yale, Brown, Franklin Park and Holy Cross. In his senior year, he was the top cross country runner in the East.

In track, Donahue finished fourth in the national championship three-mile run in 1957. He won three consecutive New England one-mile championships and also achieved two third-place and one second-place finish on doubles in these meets. Over a three-year period, Dick won twenty-seven straight dual meet mile events.

He set school records in the two-mile run in both indoor and outdoor track, the three-mile run in indoor track, and ran on the two-mile relay team that finished fourth in the nation.

In 1957, Donahue placed third in the Tousaint two-mile run in New York. At the IC4A Championship, he had four third place finishes, facing competition from colleges as from as far away as Michigan and south to Virginia.