Cooney Weiland, Ex-Bruins Coach, Will Lead Sextet

Ralph "Cooney" Weiland will take over his first collegiate coaching chores with the varsity hockey team next winter, Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 announced Saturday.

An all-time great National League player with the Boston Bruins, Weiland succeeds John Chase, who resigned as coach after a successful season this year.

In 1938-39 Weiland was player-coach on the Bruins club that captured the Stanley Cup, and in 1940-41 he coached the Bruins to their last Stanley Cup to date.

After leaving the Bruins management, Weiland took over as coach of the Hershey, Pennsylvania, club in the American League. He has since been a scout for the Bruins and more recently a salesman in Boston.

Canadian Born

"Cooney," born in 1904 in Edmonville, Ontario, began his career in organized hockey with the Owen Sound Greys in 1922. He came to the Bruins from Minneapolis six years later, as the Boston club won the Stanley Cup his freshman year, 1928-29.

After spending 1932 in the minors, at Ottawa, Weiland played with the champion Detroit Redwings for two years. He returned to Boston in a trade and played three more seasons before becoming assistant coach.