Former Cornell hockey coach Paul E. Patten, who was instrumental in the
Cornell hockey team's rebirth in 1957 after the program had been non-
existent for nine years, died in Sarasota, Florida, of cancer last Saturday.
He was 71 years old.
 
In addition to serving as the hockey team's head coach from 1957 to 1963,
Patten was the freshman coach and defensive coach for the football team.
Patten guided the Big Red hockey team back to varsity status after the
school had dropped the sport in 1948, and although his teams had a couple of
awful seasons (2-19 in 1959-60), he set the stage for successor Ned Hark-
ness's super Cornell teams of the mid-to-late '60's.  Patten's coaching
record at Cornell was 38-68-3.
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