Jeremiah to Retire As Hockey Coach

DARTMOUTH hockey coach Eddie Jeremiah '30, who has won 301 victories and nine Ivy League championships with 25 Big Green teams, will retire after next season.

He will be succeeded in the 1967-68 campaign by Dartmouth's current freshman coach Abner Oakes '56. Oakes, 32, was Dartmouth hockey captain under Jeremiah in 1956. As interim varsity coach in 1964 while Jeremiah was serving as U.S. Olympic hockey coach, he guided Dartmouth to the Ivy title.

Jerry's skates will not gather rust after his retirement from active coaching. He will continue to serve as a consultant on Dartmouth hockey for three years after next season.

Jeremiah shares the distinction with Boston College's John (Snooks) Kelley of being the only college hockey coaches with over 300 victories to their credit. Eddie also has won more Ivy titles than any other mentor. He is president of the American Hockey Coaches Association and won that organization's first Coach of the Year Award back in 1951. One of his proudest achievements is that two of his former players, coach Jack Riley of Army and former coach Bill Harrison of Clarkson, also have received Coach of the Year Awards.

Jerry was one of the last Dartmouth athletes to win seven major letters, accomplishing this in hockey, football and baseball. He won All-America honors in hockey and All-New England honors in football.

Jeremiah returned to his alma mater as varsity hockey coach on a trial basis in 1937. His original contract for $2500 was rewritten three times during the season as his Indians posted an 18-4 record. His Dartmouth teams did not lose to archrival Harvard for ten years and during one stretch in the early '40s posted a still unequalled streak of 46 games without defeat. In 1948 and 1949 Dartmouth went to the finals of the national championship and in 1948 became the only American team to share the International Intercollegiate Championship.

Eddie Jeremiah with his successor, AbOakes '56, when Ab was hockey captain.