Career
Weiland began playing junior hockey in Seaforth, where he spent three seasons with his hometown team In 1923 he moved to Owen Sound, Ontario to attend school, planning a career as a druggist. He was the club"s top scorer with 68 goals in 25 games.
After the Greys lost the 1925 OHA final to Toronto Aura Lee, Weiland began a three-year stint with the Minneapolis Millers of the old American Hockey Association.
In his second season during 1929-1930, he scored 43 goals and 73 points in 44 games aided by a rule change that season only. lieutenant shattered the National Hockey League"s single-season points record of 51 which had been set two years earlier by Montreal Canadiens legend Howie Morenz.
Weiland held the record alone until 1942-1943, when Doug Bentley of the Chicago Black Hawks tied it, and shared it for one more year—Boston"s Herb Cain broke the record with 82 points in 1943-1944. The Bruins went to the Cup final again in 1930 but were swept by Montreal.
Weiland had a brief career with Ottawa and played two seasons in Detroit, reaching the Cup final for a third time in 1934.
One of his fellow Red Wings that year was Teddy Graham, an old teammate from the 1924 Greys. Weiland returned to Boston in 1935 and retired in 1939 with 173 goals and 333 points in 510 career games. He then stepped behind the bench as the club"s new head coach and piloted Boston to its third Cup in 1940-1941.
Weiland helmed the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League for the next four seasons, then coached the league"s New Haven entry for two more years.
In 1950 he began his longest coaching stint, at Harvard University, where he compiled a record of 315-173-17 before retiring in 1971. That year also marked his induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
The New England Hockey Writers Association named Weiland its coach of the year five times and honored him with the Schaefer Pen Award for contribution to amateur hockey in 1962. Weiland coached seven All-Americans, including three-time first-team selection Joe Cavanagh "71 and two-time pick David Johnston "63.
His players earned a total of 26 first team All-Ivy honors, highlighted by the 1956-1957 team, which was made up entirely of Crimson players.
Among that group was the legendary Bill Cleary "56, who went on to assist Weiland and succeed him as head coach. Cleary served in that role for 19 seasons and as athletic director for 11.