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...should Munro want to return? Not for the benefit of the players; for a team with Munro and the present juniors will be overflowing with tensions and distrust. Not for his own pleasure, for there won't be much pleasure in coaching a team that the returning lettermen decide to boycott. There are only two reason why Munro might return: to avoid a bad precedent whereby players could have a coach fired, or to maintain Munro's pride. The idea of a precedent being more important than the human beings involved in this case is a repulsive thought...
...Munro's pride, it would take-a greater act of character to accept the opinions of the team and retire than to hang on obstinately in the face of criticism...
...Munro's distance is not the distance of authority. He has been accused of sentimentality and non-professionalism by all the players. He continually told both Bill Meyers and Shep Messing that they were the better of the two goalies. When Norrie Harrower complained of not playing enough this fall, a just criticism, Munro overreacted and started him the next game without explaining to starting halfback Chris Ferner why he had been demoted until after an incident...
When personal concern for players and firm judgment would have built respect, Munro's combination of af aloofness from the players and sentimentality have left him a coach without either the allegiances of a friend or a pupil...
...even if the charges are not true. the way the issue has been handled necessitates Munro's removal. The behind-the-back talks have alienated Munro from all but one letterman. And as one freshman player said, "I've never met the man, but if I go out for the team next year I probably won't approach him because I expect the same kind of relationships...