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Union and Harkness As a graduate I am amazed but pleased to read your strong support of "quiet, scholarly Union College" [Jan. 9], lately the victim of hockey coach Ned Harkness's most recent sports blitz. The college's president made his first error in hiring a man whose coaching history reads like a Nazi blueprint for conquest...
...Ned Bacon lost 1-3 in the second position. Bacon won his first game 15-11, but then gave up three games by 11-15, 10-15, and 10-15 margins. Captain Mark Panarese swept his match 3-0 but again the scores were close...
...Ned Bacon almost imitated teammates Havens, Stubbs, Nixon, and Secrest, when he defeated Randy Kahn in the first two games of his match and then lost his third game. However, Bacon edged Kahn 16-15 in the fourth game for a 3-1 score in the eighth slot...
...Mike DeSaulniers disposed of opponent Ernie Cogswell in three straight games, but John Havens and Ned Bacon at the second and third slots respectively did not fare so well...
...coach, and cause célebre of the Union uproar, is Ned Harkness, a tense, passionate competitor who eats poached eggs to soothe a nervous stomach and refers to hockey pucks as "black vitamins." A leg wound as an RCAF bombardier in World War II cut him off from playing, but at 56, he is legendary in hockey for building championship teams practically from scratch. He was doing just that for Union when he quit, and he did it twice before-first at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and then for Cornell. After his Cornell team won all 29 of its games...