>
> Someone asked last week why Eddie Jeremiah won the Coach of
> the Year award one year in I the late '60s ('67 I think) despite
> his team, Dartmouth, having a losing record.  Jeremiah died from
> cancer in June, soon after that season ended.  I assume that this
> fact was well-known among the voters that year and as Mike Machnik
> surmised it must have been a career achievement award.  This information
> comes from the NCAA's Hockey Guide of 1968 which had a nice tribute for
> Jeremiah.  And on the topic of the NCAA Hockey Guides, they were
> published until the early 1980s and the last few did not have pictures
> of hockey players on the covers.
>
> Ralph Baer
> RPI '68, '70, '74
> RPI in '98!
>
Just in case it wasn't clear, in the 1968 NCAA guide, in addition to the
very nice tribute to Jeremiah, Hal Dinberg of The Syracuse Herald-Journal
said in his report on the NCAA tournament among othre things "Eddie Jeremiah,
Dartmouth's great ice mentor, was named Coach of the Year for his long service
to college hockey.  His selection came only a few weeks before his death."
 
BTW, if anyone other than the four to whom I've already responded is
interested in these guides, let me know before tomorrow which is when I plan
to find a fair way to divide them.
 
                                                Best,
                                                        Alex
 
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