This is an article in this week's "Yale Weekly Bulletin &
Calendar." Hockey-lers may be surprized to learn that the
Taylor-Poliziani coaching team is "the finest combination in the
collegiate game." :)
 
 
> OLYMPIC HOCKEY COACH RETURNS TO YALE DUTIES
>
>         Tim Taylor, who spent the 1993-94 season at the helm of the
> U.S. Olympic hockey efforts in Lillehammer, Norway, will return to
> the Yale hockey team for the 1994-95 season.
>         Dan Poliziani, who served as interim head coach during the
> 1993-94 season, will return to the program as associate head coach.
>         "I am excited about getting back and working closely with Dan",
> says Mr. Taylor. "Dan has done a wonderful job laying the
> groundwork to turn around the program. I am also excited about
> working with our new athletic director [Tom Beckett]. There is a lot
> of enthusiasm around the Yale Athletic Department now."
>         Mr. Beckett says he is "elated" that Mr. Taylor will return to the
> University, adding that the Taylor-Poliziani coaching team is "the
> finest combination in the collegiate game. I am excited and look
> forward to the coming season."
>         As interim coach, Mr. Poliziani, the former Yale hockey star and
> an assistant coach under Mr. Taylor for seven seasons, inherited a
> Bulldog team that had graduated 80 percent of its scoring from the
> previous season and went 5-21-1 last winter.
>         Mr. Taylor, whose 1994 Olympic team finished eighth, has
> spent 17 seasons behind the Yale bench, and his last two squads
> have made legitimate runs at the school's first-ever ECAC title. His
> 1991-92 team finished fourth -- just three points from the top --
> after being picked ninth in the ECAC pre-season coaches' poll. Yale
> not only earned home ice for the ECAC playoffs, where it fell to
> Cornell 4-1, but won its third Ivy League championship under Mr.
> Taylor, while being ranked among the nation's top 15 teams for
> much of the season. He was rewarded with ECAC Coach of the Year
> and New England Coach of the Year honors.
>         During the years he has been based in New Haven, Mr. Taylor
> has produced three Ivy League champions, 10 ECAC playoff teams
> and many professional hockey players. Considered one of the top
> strategists in the sport, Mr. Taylor earned ECAC Coach of the Year
> honors in 1986-87, after taking a rebuilding team all the way to the
> ECAC semifinals in Boston Garden. His 1984-85 team became the first
> at Yale to win 20 games  20-11-1 , and the Bulldogs followed that
> with their most successful season ever  21-10  in 1985-86.
>         Mr. Taylor's international assignments include serving as head
> coach of the U.S. National Team at the International Ice Hockey
> Federation World Championships and as assistant general manager
> and assistant coach for the 1984 U.S. Olympic team. He is Yale's
> seventh head coach.
 
 
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