Word: ncaas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cleary soon saw something he waited 19 years for--his team celebrating an NCAA title. He turned to his associate coach, Ronn Tomassoni...
Cleary, who became Harvard's coach in 1971, had taken teams to the NCAA finals twice--in 1983 and 1986--without winning. This time, Harvard beat back a fierce Minnesota team and a ferocious Gopher crowd to capture college hockey's biggest prize...
Harvard has appeared in five straight NCAA tournaments. But despite the Crimson's consistent excellence, it has failed to win the praise of coaches from the hotbed of hockey, the wild West. Eastern schools have always been viewed with mild disdain by their Western counterparts...
...NCAA final summarized Cleary's hockey philosophy. With less than a minute left in regulation, Cleary put his fourth line on the ice. Most coaches would not trust their last line in a situation like that. But early in his coaching career, Cleary made a point of skating all four lines--even at crucial points in the game. So with the game on the line, the Crimson's green line...
Harvard is only the third Eastern team to win the NCAA tournament since 1973. If there ever was a time for Bill Cleary to spill his cliches about Harvard's special brand of hockey, it was Saturday. It was the perfect time to talk about the virtues of a skating team as opposed to a physical team. ("If you can't catch us, youcan't hit us.") It was the perfect time to talkabout the hockey world's anti-Harvard sentiments("Everyone wants to get the Johnnies.") Instead,Cleary gave a season valedictory...