In Article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] (Carol S White) wrote: >From the Star Tribune this morning in the Minnesota Scene column: > >EVELETH'S GRANT NAMED TO HOCKEY HALL > >Wally Grant, who played for the Eveleth Golden Bears high school hockey >dynasty in the 1940s, is one of three who will be inducted into the U.S. >Hockey Hall of Fame in Eveleth (Minnesota) in October. Grant will be joined by >former Harvard star Joe Cavanaugh and former RPI and Cornell coach Ned >Harkness. > >Grant, who played in the first state tournament in 1945, played at Michigan >when the Wolverines won the first NCAA hockey title in 1948. He worked for >General Motors for 37 years in the Detroit area. > >Cavanaugh, from Warwick, R.I., is an attorney who has been a youth coach since >1982. He never played hockey beyond his All-America days at Harvard. > >Harkness started the hockey program at RPI in 1950 and later coached at >Cornell, winning NCAA titles at RPI in 1954 and at Cornell in 1967 and 1970. >Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Harkness became a U.S. citizen in 1949. ><end quoted material> Harkness also started the hockey program at Union college in 1970, was head of the Olympic Authority in Lake Placid, brought the ECAC Chapionships there a few years ago, and was instumental in bringing an AHL team to Glens Falls (the Adirondack Red Wings) On a nonhockey note also brought a lacrosse championship to RPI > >Well, I guess the three inductees represent a real cross-section of college >hockey this year! :-) > >-Carol >GO Gophers!!! > >Carol S. White BITNET: c-whit@uminn1 >University of Minnesota internet:[log in to unmask] >Office of the Registrar >(612) 625-8517 GO Gophers!!!