Richard Vaughan (ice hockey)

Richard Vaughan
Sport(s) Ice hockey
Biographical details
Born Wisconsin
Playing career
?–1928 Yale
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1935–1943 Princeton
1946–1959 Princeton
Head coaching record
Overall 159–211–14

Richard Farries Vaughan was an American ice hockey player and head coach, best known for his long tenure at Princeton Tigers.[1]

Career

Vaughan began coaching Princeton Tigers ice hockey team in 1935 and promptly raised the level of completion from a poor outing the previous year.[2] The Tigers could not sustain the success and oscillated around the .500 mark for the next seven years. While the program was closed for two years during World War II, Vaughan was retained as head coach and resumed his work once the team returned to action in January 1946 (some sources list no coach for that abbreviated year). The post-war Tigers were not quite as good as their earlier iterations: Vaughan's squads hovered just below an even record for much of the time. He left in 1959 and was replaced by R. Norman Wood.

During the early part of his career, Vaughan published a book entitled Hockey which has since gone out of print.[3]

Personal life

Vaughan was the son of Baptist theologian Richard Miner Vaughan.

Head coaching record

Vaughan's record as college head coach is:[4]

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Princeton Tigers (Independent) (1935–1943)
1935–36 Princeton 13–8–1
1936–37 Princeton 6–11–0
1937–38 Princeton 5–12–1
1938–39 Princeton 11–10–0
1939–40 Princeton 9–7–3
1940–41 Princeton 9–5–1
1941–42 Princeton 10–6–0
1942–43 Princeton 3–9–0
Princeton: 66–68–6
Princeton Tigers (Independent) (1946–1959)
1945–46 Princeton 1–3–0
1946–47 Princeton 6–6–1
1947–48 Princeton 10–11–0
1948–49 Princeton 6–13–1
1949–50 Princeton 6–13–1
1950–51 Princeton 7–10–1
1951–52 Princeton 8–7–0
1952–53 Princeton 11–7–0
1953–54 Princeton 4–12–2
1954–55 Princeton 8–8–1
1955–56 Princeton 11–9–0
1956–57 Princeton 2–17–0
1957–58 Princeton 7–11–0
1958–59 Princeton 6–16–1
Princeton: 93–143–8
Total:159–211–14

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References

  1. ↑ "Princeton Men's Hockey Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  2. ↑ "Athletics Over the Holidays". The Princeton Alumni Weekly. 1936-01-10. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  3. ↑ "Hockey, (Whittlesey house sports series)". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  4. ↑ "Men's Hockey Year-by-Year". Princeton Tigers. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
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