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Quote from: Tim Layden on April 24, 2026, 03:56:43 PMThis is late, because I had not been lurking on the board. I'm part of a big Williams email group that includes a lot of guys who played for Dick Farley (as a defensive assistant under Bob Odell) in the mid-late 70s and early 1980s. Memories ran the gamut from Dick's well-worn one-liners ("If you can't play here, you can't play anywhere; there's no Division 4"), to, more poignantly, his tireless connections to the guys he coached over the years and willingness to help them in any way.

I did not play for Dick, except as a freshman QB playing against his very good varsity D. But I got to know him through my work, in later years. He loved talking about the coaches and players I covered and always sought me out when I was in town. He also sponsored a sports journalism Winter Study class I taught in 2013, and attended the first class.

Two memories: I wrote a story about Dick for SI.com when he retired in 2003. I talked to him on the Monday after the Amherst game. On that same day, his daughter, Colleen, had won the Western Mass championship with her soccer team at Mount Greylock HS. Dick said, emotionally, "She was in the right place, I was in the right place, but we weren't in the same place." As someone who gathers quotes for a living, that was a great one.

Also, many of the stories about Dick involve his passion and coaching on the practice field and on game day, deservedly so. But a few years after he retired, I interviewed him again, for a football book. At one point, he said, "I won most of my games watching film during the week, not on Saturday afternoon. That's where I did my best stuff."

Anyway... RIP Dick, truly one of a kind. When Farley-Lamb field was christened, both Dick and Renzie were alive, now both gone.

TL W '78

Thank you for posting! You registered quite some time ago!

Hah! Can't hang with the likes of nescac1, lumbercat, Nescacman, Trin9-0 or others on the hoops board like Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan), so I'll sit back and enjoy the conversations.Just wanted to shout out Farley, a friend and deserving NESCAC all-timer.

This is late, because I had not been lurking on the board. I'm part of a big Williams email group that includes a lot of guys who played for Dick Farley (as a defensive assistant under Bob Odell) in the mid-late 70s and early 1980s. Memories ran the gamut from Dick's well-worn one-liners ("If you can't play here, you can't play anywhere; there's no Division 4"), to, more poignantly, his tireless connections to the guys he coached over the years and willingness to help them in any way.

I did not play for Dick, except as a freshman QB playing against his very good varsity D. But I got to know him through my work, in later years. He loved talking about the coaches and players I covered and always sought me out when I was in town. He also sponsored a sports journalism Winter Study class I taught in 2013, and attended the first class.

Two memories: I wrote a story about Dick for SI.com when he retired in 2003. I talked to him on the Monday after the Amherst game. On that same day, his daughter, Colleen, had won the Western Mass championship with her soccer team at Mount Greylock HS. Dick said, emotionally, "She was in the right place, I was in the right place, but we weren't in the same place." As someone who gathers quotes for a living, that was a great one.

Also, many of the stories about Dick involve his passion and coaching on the practice field and on game day, deservedly so. But a few years after he retired, I interviewed him again, for a football book. At one point, he said, "I won most of my games watching film during the week, not on Saturday afternoon. That's where I did my best stuff."

Anyway... RIP Dick, truly one of a kind. When Farley-Lamb field was christened, both Dick and Renzie were alive, now both gone.

TL W '78