He coached the Bulldog men’s team from 1976 to 2006, compiled a school hockey record of 337 wins, and then went to work for USA Hockey as the director of player personnel for the junior national team that won a gold medal at the 2012 world championships.

The Taylor regime produced one ECAC title, six Ivy League champions, 19 ECAC playoff teams, a pair of 20-win seasons and many professional skaters. Taylor, the 1997-98 Spencer Penrose Award winner as the American Hockey Coaches Association Coach of the Year, was a three-time (1986-87, 1991-92, 1997-98) ECAC Coach of the Year and a two-time (1991-92, 1997-98) New England Coach of the Year. He coached all six of Yale’s Hobey Baker Award finalists.

Taylor had a number of important international assignments, the most notable as head coach of the 1994 U.S. Olympic team at Lillehammer. Additional roles included assistant general manager and assistant coach for the 1984 U.S. Olympic team; head coach of the U.S. National Team at the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championships four straight years in the 90’s, and a two-time assistant for the U.S. National Team (1981 and 1983). He also led Team USA to its best finish in the 1991 Canada Cup, taking over Team USA after head coach Bob Johnson became ill and led the Americans to second place.

Taylor (337-433-55 career record at Yale), the recipient of USA Hockey’s 2006 Distinguished Achievement Award, was a 1963 Harvard graduate. He spent seven years as an assistant at his alma mater before becoming Yale’s 10th head coach. He captained the 1963 Crimson team that won the Ivy League and the ECAC championships, and tallied 46 goals and 33 assists for 79 career points in 68 games. Tim Taylor passed away April of 2013 at the age of 71 after a long battle with cancer. In his honor, the Tim Taylor Cup was established and presented for the first time in 2014 to the Most Outstanding Player when Harvard hosts the annual Harvard-Yale game in Cambridge, Mass.

Coach Taylor will be honored along with this year’s Hobey Baker Award winner at the annual Hobey Baker Award Banquet on Thursday, May 28, 2015 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Banquet tickets are available by visiting the Hobey website at: hobeybaker.com. The Hobey Baker Memorial Award annually honors college hockey’s top player and the 2015 recipient will be announced Friday, April 10 during the NCAA Frozen Four championship in Boston, Mass., from Mathews Arena, the nation’s oldest hockey arena, and formerly known as Boston Arena where Hobey Baker played several games in his historic past.