Jim Higgins is a retired
American
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ice hockey
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player and coach. Higgins is most remembered for his time at
Princeton
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, coaching the Tigers for 14 years after spending the preceding decade building a coaching career. While Higgins failed to produce a single winning season during his time as a college
head coach
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he is nevertheless the winningest ice hockey coach at Princeton since
World War II
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(as of 2019). In recognition of his career Higgins was awarded the John "Snooks" Kelly Founders Award in 2013.
Regular season and playoffs
Head coaching record
References
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American men's ice hockey defensemen
Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey players
Colgate Raiders men's ice hockey coaches
Ice hockey coaches from Massachusetts
Living people
Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey coaches
Sportspeople from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ice hockey players from Massachusetts