Tim Taylor, who was born and raised in Natick and coached the Yale hockey team for 30 years, dies on Saturday after a lengthy battle with cancer, according to United States College Hockey Online.
Taylor was born March 26, 1942, in Natick. He attended Harvard, where he captained the 1963 Ivy League championship team.
He served as Yale's head coach from 1976-2006, compiling a record of 342-433-55 over that time, twice taking a year off to coach in the Olympic Games- as an assistant in 1984 and the head coach in 1994.
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Among the awards and accolades Taylor received during his career was the 1998 Spencer Penrose Award as the Division 1 Coach of the Year and in 2006 he received USA Hockey's Distinguished Achievement Award.
Most recently Taylor had been working for USA Hockey, including serving as director of player personnel for the U.S. team at the World Junior Championship.
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Ironically, the all-time winningest coach in Yale history died just two weeks after the Yale hockey team won their first National Championship.
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