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...season, however, was a success. Watching the clock run out on his last game as a Harvard coach in a half-filled, upstate New York minor league rink, only a week after standing to an ovation of 14,000 at Boston Garden, Cooney Weiland couldn't have felt too wonderful, but he isn't unhappy either. Cooney, voted ECAC coach of the year for the second time in his 21 years as coach, called his 18-8-1 season "tremendous...
...Harvard was no longer outplaying the Gophers, and Durno, who ended up with 44 saves, was called on time and again. "We stopped skating, and they started skating." Crimson coach Cooney Weiland explained later...
...team was reportedly suffering from internal dissension. Cooney Weiland is hardly a popular, inspirational coach, and there was some condescension and some bitterness to wards him, especially among the younger members of the team. Furthermore, there was apparently a rift between the seniors and the sophomores. Dan DiMichele and Doug Elliott fought more than once in practice, and Joe Cavanagh even exchanged a few punches with Elliott. Oddly enough, Cavanagh, a soft-spoken, personable captain, was some what resented, possibly for his close friendship with Cooney. His senior linemates, Cooch Owen and DiMichele, were resented for their failure to play...
...Cooney Weiland is a reserved coach, and Jones feels their personalities have matched well. "Cooney is restrained with people who don't know him well." Jones said. "He doesn't get us yelling in the locker room because he wants us to do it out on the ice when we're doing our jobs. Cooney hides his emotions during the game, but that's so he won't get carried away in the excitement. I guess it's part of his pro experience...
...Cooney's team had just climaxed an impossible weekend by beating