Ned Harkness
| Sport(s) | Ice hockey, Lacrosse |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
September 19, 1919 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | September 19, 2008 (aged 89) Rochester, New York, U.S. |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1949–1963 | Rensselaer |
| 1963–1970 | Cornell |
| 1970–1971 | Detroit Red Wings |
| 1971–1974 | Detroit Red Wings (General Manager) |
| 1975–1978 | Union |
| 1979–1982 | Adirondack Red Wings (General Manager) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 384-131-11 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1952 NCAA National Championship (Lacrosse) 1953 Tri-State League Regular Season Championship 1954 Tri-State League Regular Season Championship 1954 NCAA National Championship 1957 Tri-State League Regular Season Championship 1967 ECAC Hockey Tournament Championship 1967 NCAA National Championship 1968 ECAC Regular Season Championship 1968 ECAC Hockey Tournament Championship 1969 ECAC Regular Season Championship 1969 ECAC Hockey Tournament Championship 1970 ECAC Regular Season Championship 1970 ECAC Hockey Tournament Championship 1970 NCAA National Championship |
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| Awards | |
| 1968 Spencer Penrose Award 1981 Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame 1982 Rensselaer Athletic Hall of Fame 1993 Lake Placid Hall of Fame 1994 US Hockey Hall of Fame 1998 Hobey Baker Legend of College Hockey Award 2001 National Lacrosse Hall of Fame 2007 Rensselaer Hockey Ring of Honor |
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| Records | |
| 1970 Highest Winning Percentage (1.000) | |
Nevin D. "Ned" Harkness (September 19, 1919 – September 19, 2008) was a NCAA head coach of ice hockey and lacrosse at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Cornell University and of ice hockey at Union College. Harkness was also head coach of the Detroit Red Wings and later was the team's general manager. He was inducted into the Lake Placid Hall of Fame in 1993, the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2001 and into the RPI Hockey Ring of Honor in 2007. He is also a member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in Eveleth, Minnesota, having been inducted in 1994.
Harkness grew up in Ontario, but before coming of age, his family moved to the Glens Falls, New York region north of Albany (Harkness became a naturalized American citizen in 1949 ). He graduated from the Worcester Academy in 1939.
In 1941, Harkness became a volunteer coach for a group of students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy who were interested in forming a lacrosse club. Through that year and the next, the team practiced and scrimmaged with Harkness leading the way, eventually playing games against four varsity programs. World War II led to the disbanding of the team, but when the school formally established a varsity lacrosse program in 1945, Harkness was asked to become its first coach.
Within a year of its establishment, Ned Harkness had Rensselaer ranked among the best lacrosse teams in the country. In 1948, coming off an undefeated season of collegiate play, he took the team to the Olympic Games in London, England, where the team, representing the United States, would tie the British All-Star team before 60,000 at Wembley Stadium while amassing an 8–0–1 record in nine games played in England.
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