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On Hockey Retirement
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• -Ralph Cooney Weiland, a
product of Egmondville and one
of hockeys greats has retired
from hockey. Harvard Unfver-
sal), where he 'has coached for
21 years, honored him at a tes-
timonial dinner recently in
Boston.
Am ulg the 350 guests, were
Frank Kling, Seaforth and
Cooney's brothers, Roy and.
William Weiland of Toronto.
Cooney Wetland, was feted at
the Harvard Club of Boston with
an assortment of gifts, including
a bungalow to be built on his
property in ShAi•born, Mass.
Among the guests on hand to
honor him were Milt Schmidt,
Qeneral Manager of the Boston
Bruins; Bit Clapper, the NHL's
first, 20-year man and Weiland's
linemate with the Boston Bruins;
Snooks Kelley, Hockey coach at
Boston College; and Bill Cleary,-
a former Harvard hockey star
who is succeeding Wetland as
coach..
In addition,. Mr, Weiland re-
ceived dozens of telegrams and
letters from former players and
associates.
Coney Weiland was coach of
the year in Eastern hockey and
in the U.S.. during 1970-71.
Cooney was elated.
__..."Now this is something",
_said Cowley. "I'm really hon-
ored. I always said that hockey
was the greatest game in the
world and that it attracted the
greatest people." .
Cooney, .who also played for
anff coached the Hostorr-Bruins
to the Stanley Cup in 1969, griaL
ned,,,."I've been lucky. I loved
playin'g and coaching in the pros,
but working with the college kids
was even better.
"As far as hockey goes, I've
had the best of two worlds. I
wouldn't change a minute of it.
' I'm retired, but I'll stay
close to college hockey. I sort
of think I'll like being a spec-
tator next season."
HALL OF FAME
A move is afoot •in Boston
to have the Egmondville native
named to the Hockey Hall of
In his days as a NHL
player. with Boston Bruins he
established what still Stand's
as the second best scoring feat
in NHL history - that of 43
goals in 44 games. This was in
the 1939-30 season in years when
a 20 goal scorer was rare.
The Hall of Fame move is
being sparked by the Boston
Sunday Globe by a series of
references similar to the fol-
lowing by Francis Rosa of the
Globe: -
' Okay, all you hockey fans
out there in Bruins' country, let's
do something about getting
Cooney Weiland into hockey's
Hall of Fame where he belongs.
What? You thought all along
that he was in it? Well, he'
not. Want to do something abo t
it? • Write post cards to Mauri e
'Lefty" Reid, curator of the
Hockey Hall of Fam?, C anadian,
National Exhibition Park in
Toronto, and he'll forward them
to the selection committee.
Just tell him, "Put Cooney
Weiland In the Hall of Fame."
Weiland's absence is really
a mystery. His credentials are
in good order and his one-time
boss, Weston Adams Sr. of the
Bruins, says, "He belongs in
the Hall of Fame ahead 'of some
of the people who are already
there . . . he has earned any
honor that hockey gives him."
The eligibility requirements
are stated tersely:' Any 'per-
son who is, or has been dis-
By Joe Concannon
In' the 'ale-'Harvard -Hockey
Program
An. old hat on his head, with
thick - rimmed glasses setting
off a stern, deliberate look,
Cooney Weiland stands at one
end of the Harvard hockey ,,team
bench in Watson Rink, watching
in studied silence the game that
has been his
Occasionally, he is apt to
shout something thit. to indulge
ur conversation with an official,
to say something to a. player on
the bench. Usually.' thOugh, he
remains quiet, observant, in-
volved, because Cooney Weiland
is a' man of few word's. •
The Harvard coach since
1950. when practice was held
on an outdoor, wihd-swept rink
in often biting, piercing cold and
home games were played
in the Boston Arena. Co.oney has
collected 3'11 victories:
In this respect, it is enough
to say that only four other college
coaches have ever won 300 game's
in a career: John (Snooks) Kelley
of Boston College, (lie late Eddie
Jeremiah of Dartmouth, Ned
Harkness of RPI and Cornell
and Murray Armstrong of
Denver.
So much for statistics,- for
tinguished in hockey as a player,
executive, or as a referee, shall
IMO eligible for election."
Weiland's career certainly
has been distinguished. As a
player, he led the league In
scoring, played with Stanley Cup
champions. As a coach, he won
the Stanley Cup. And as a col-
lege coach he has won 300 games.
For 11 years he finessed
his way In, around, through and
uqder his rivals in the NHL. He
amassed 333 points - not terri-
fying in these days of 100-point
,seasons. But this was from
1928 to 193b. He scored 173
goals had 160 assists and hit
his peak in the 1929-30 season
with 43 goals in a 44.-game sea-
son.
He averaged 1.66 points per
game that season - which is still
the third best points-per-game
average for a single season in
NHL history. The only better
seasons were: Phil Esposito's
1.77 average in 1968-69
and Herbie Cain's 1.70 in the
43-44 season. All three posted
those averages lwith the Bruins.
In. 1940-41 Weiland. coached
the Bruins to the Stanley Cup -
and they didn't win it again until
last season: He had a falling
out with general manager Art
Ross over some minor matter
after that and was fired".
statistics are too cold, too
calculated and Coondy Can't be'
bothered by them anyway. A
quiet, observant, involved man,
yes, but to him hockey is, a game
and he talks about it in keen,
per ,•eptive and frequently
analytical language.
"The first year I carrehere,"
he says, "I was right out of the
pro circles. It was quite dif-
ferent, the whole concept of
hockey. Kids were very puck-
conscious. They still are, :to
some' extent. . They 'didn't know
too much about playing position.
"It took me the better part
of the year to change things.
Most of them thought they could
score the minute they got the
puck. One guy' would go as far
as he could with it, then another
guy would pick it up and go as
far as he could with it, and so
on."
Educationally, it was an
experience for Cboney, too. A
former professional player and
coach, an artist as a center
ice man, he was stepping into a
new world. Harvard. As he
prepares for his final season,
Cooney has become a very big
part cif that world.
loves the place," says
Billy Cleary, one of his early
Ralph (Cooney) Weiland is a
professional who turned amateur.
After playing and coaching in
the National, Hockey League, and
until his recent retirement he
was the senior coach in the Ivy
League. He has compiled an
outstanding record in both ranks.
In the NHL, Cooney Weiland
was an All-Star center and an
All-Star coach. In the college
ranks, he's been "Coach of the
Year" four times and led' his
teams to four NCAA champion-
ship tournaments.
"A native of Egmondville and
'Seaforth, he came to Harvard in
1950. During the first.20 years
of his leadership, crimson teams
captured eight Ivy League titles
and won nearly twice as many
games as they lost.
In fact, Cooney is one of only
five coaches' in the histofy of
American college hockey to win
300 games.
Since coming to Harvard, his
record has testified to the job
he has done. 'He was pamed New
'England Coach of -the Year" in
1955, 1957, 1961 and 1962. He
was the American Hockey coa-
ches Association "Coach of the
Year" in 1957. In 1962, he was
the winner of the Shaefer Pen
award presented annually for an
outstanding contLibution to. New
England hockey.
Cooney has coached four
teams to the NCAA post-season
tournaments in 1954-55(16-2-1),
1956-57 (21-5), 1957-58
players and one of his great
players, who' Presently assists
him as varsity coach. "He really
does. It's a real part of him,
although he doesn't come right
out and say it. And he's become
a part of Hai'vard."
To players, Cooney' ' has
sometimes seemed aloof, apart.
Yet, as Cleary says, "He can
give you a look that is worth a
million words. You knew im-
mediately what you did .wrong.
You didn't have to bother to
ask. "PlayerS• who did usually
received a second Weiland look.
- "Whenever I think in terms
of Cooney," says Freshman
Coach Tim Taylor, captain of
the 1962-63 team that won the
Eastern championship in'a tense
dramatic struggle against BE
in the Arena, "I think in terms
of our teams at Harvard in the
early Sixties.
"I can remember practicing,
how frustrating it was. It was
impossible to just score a goal.
We practiced the Cooney Weiland
way, with a lot of back-checking,
You'd get in a 'game and it was
an entirely different world. Then
you'd realize how right Cooney
"Oyer the years, Harvard has
won a,lot,of games against tearns
In pro hockey, the Weiland *
record speaks for itself. His
record of 73 points in a 44 '
game season for the Boston
Bruins in 1929-30 (43 goals and
30 assists) is one of the great
marks in professional hockey.
He also turned in one of the "fastest" individual scoring
feats in professional hockey when
he scored two goals within seven
seconds against the Toronto.
Maple Leafs on Dec. 14, 1937.
Cooney Weiland came up to
the Bruins in the Fall of 1928
from the Minneapolis Millers and"4,
was made pivot man for the
"Dynamite Trio", which in-
cluded Dit Clapper and 'Dutch
Gainor.
He also played for the
Ottawa Senators in 1932 and then
for the ,Detroit Red Wings, when
they won their first National
League title in 1933-34. He
returned to Boston in 1935 and
became. the Bruins' coach in
1938 and won the National Hockey
League • Title and the World
Championship his first year.
The Bruins repeated the
following year, but lost in the
playoffs to the New York Rang-
ers. In 1940-41, the Bruins.
again won the World Champion-
ship, and Cooney Weiland was
selected as the National League's
All Star coach by the Canadian
Press. From 1946 to 194 8, he
coached the Hershey Bears.
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with more depth,, more speed.
That was the reason. Cooney
isn't the kind of coach who babies
you, who uses any subtle
psychology. He expects you to
be big enough, mature enough fl
to play hockey."
Pep talks? "ia pep talk,"
says Cleary, "is, 'You play goal, ,
you play right wing.' I remember
playing Boston University once.
He kept telling as to watch No.
17. No. 17. was Dick Rodenheiser.
Cooney kept saying, "Watch
what's his name. You' knOW.
Eisenhower." '
Stories about' Cooney forget-
ting name's are 'airno.st more
numerous than COoney Weiland,
victories. If Cooney didn't mis-
pronounce your name, or forget
it entirely, then you never knew to
Cooney Weiland. One year, play-
ers named Moynihan and Mahoney
became,".Mahoynihan" and"Ma-
honihan."
The Weiland manner seems
gruff, the voice a growl. A first
meeting with a Harvard' fresh-
man has often ended with the •
freshman blurting out a few meek,
"Yes, sirs," and fleeing. Four
years later, if the freshman has
surVived, he takes away his own
Cooney Weiland stories.
(Continued on Page 16)
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