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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...
...usually a happy one. We are indignant if Superman allows Lois Lane to be undone by a buzz-saw, or if the U.S. Calvary and Rin Tin Tin don't beat the shit out of the Indians. So one's sense of propriety was jarred this weekend when Cooney Weiland's illustrious hockey career ended not with Harvard's first NCAA championship, but with an unbelievable 6-5 loss to Minnesota, and then a 1-0 defeat the next afternoon. Where was God, or Cecil DeMille for that matter, that this atrocity could be allowed to happen...
...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...
...Weiland had little to say after seeing his final season end in a disappointment. "We relaxed a little bit too much at the wrong time," he said...
...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...