LinkedIn: Friday the 13th Edition

Here are some links from various sources around the web that pertain to NESCAC hockey.

Middlebury G.O.A.T. elected to Vermont Sports Hall of Fame 

Photo Credit: Middlebury College Athletic Communications)

We've talked about Middlebury alum Phil Latreille ('61) AKA the Greatest of All Time (GOAT) before . On September 9th, the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame announced that Latreille - the most prolific goal scorer in NCAA hockey history - will be part of its second class of inductees. The induction ceremony and dinner will be held on Sunday, November 17, 2013 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Burlington. Ray Fisher ('10), the first of two Middlebury baseball players to ever make it to the MLB, will also be inducted. Tickets will be available to the public and can be purchased at www.vermontsportshall.com.


Read More: Vermont Sports Hall of Fame - - Phil Latreille

Read More: Middlebury Athletics - - Latreille & FIsher Earn Vermont Sports Hall of Fame Nods

Former Bowdoin Legend C. Nels Corey ('39) passes away
Former Bowdoin hockey goalie, coach and all around Polar Bear legend C. Nels Corey ('39) passed away on August 11th at the tender age of 98. At a time when freshmen weren't allowed to play varsity sports, Corey earned nine varsity letters in three years in football, hockey and lacrosse. Nels storied playing career in Brunswick included All-American honors in football and All-New England honors in hockey.

After earning a BS from Bowdoin, Neels would go on to teach/coach high school, before serving in the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific for 25 months during WWII, earning the rank of lieutenant. After the war, he would return to teaching and coaching, eventually ending up as the head football and hockey coach at Colby from 1950-52 as well as a stint at Williams after that.

In 1955 he returned to Bowdoin where he became the hockey coach (1957), then football coach (1959), then the first collegiate lacrosse coach in the state of Maine. Corey coached the hockey team for one season, then co-coached the team with Sid Watson in 58-59. Since then, only Watson and current coach Terry Meagher have held the head whistle for the Polar Bears in 54 seasons.

Nels left Bowdoin in 1965 and would go on to a distinguished career as a prep school athletic director and coach. He was elected into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame in 1997 and was a member of the first class inducted into the Bowdoin College Athletic Hall of Honor in 2002. As the grandson of a WWII vet/multi-sport collegiate athlete from the 30s who dedicated his life to coaching and teaching, I have a special place in my heart for members of the "Greatest Generation" like C. Nels Corey.

Read More: Bowdoin Athletics - - Bowdoin Mourns the Passing of Legendary Athlete and Coach C. Neels Corey '39 

Read More: Tom Chard, Portland Press Herald - - Remembering C. Nels Corey, a can-do-it-all coach, player 

Drill of the Month Club 
If you haven't already, you should check out www.coachchrishall.com, where Colby Assistant Coach Chris Hall explains a hockey drill each week in his "Drill of the Week." Yesterday, Hall proposed a "Drill of the Month Club" where you would sign up each month to submit one drill explanation and then coach would send all of the submissions to everyone on the list. As Halls puts it, "The math works great = Submit 1, Get 10? 20?"

Read More: Chris Hall - - Drill of the Month Club? 


Saturday Night Lights 
It's not hockey, but it's still an interesting bit of NESCAC athletic news: Tufts and Wesleyan will play the first night football game in the history of the NESCAC on Saturday, September 21, at 6 P.M. in the season opener for both schools. Temporary lighting will be installed at Wesleyan's Argus Field, the oldest college football field in the country. Admission will be free of charge and the game will be webcast.

Read More: Kate Carlisle, The Wesleyan Connection - - First Night Football Game in the History of NESCAC to be Played Sept. 21