Jim Goddard (basketball)

{{Short description|American basketball player and coach}}

{{About|the American basketball coach|the English director|Jim Goddard|the swimmer|James Goddard}}

{{Infobox college coach

| name = Jim Goddard

| image = Jim Goddard.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Goddard during the 1965–66 season

| birth_date = c. {{Birth year and age|1930}}

| birth_place = Salem, Oregon, U.S.

| death_date =

| death_place =

| alma_mater =

| player_years1 = 1948–1952

| player_team1 = Lewis & Clark

| player_positions = Guard

| coach_years1 = 1957–1959

| coach_team1 = Lewis & Clark (assistant)

| coach_years2 = 1959–1963

| coach_team2 = Lewis & Clark

| coach_years3 = 1963–1966

| coach_team3 = Idaho

| admin_years1 =

| admin_team1 =

| admin_years2 =

| admin_team2 =

| overall_record =

| bowl_record =

| tournament_record =

| championships =

| awards =

| coaching_records =

}}

Jim Goddard (born circa 1930) is a former American college basketball coach in the western United States.

He was the head coach at Idaho for three seasons and previously at his alma mater Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=t8xYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BukDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7000%2C2164289 |work=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |agency=Associated Press |title=Idahos hire Goddard, Nau |date=April 21, 1963 |page=2, sports}}{{cite news |url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/3211?_ga=2.146847294.803473178.1519446968-632479480.1517437024 |work=Idaho Argonaut |location=(Moscow) |agency=(University of Idaho)|title=Skip says James Goddard is right man for cage job |date=April 23, 1963 |page=4}}

From Salem, Oregon, Goddard had been on the basketball coaching staff at Lewis & Clark for the previous six seasons, the last four as head coach. In each of the last two years, the Pioneers won the season title in the Northwest Conference,{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3hhWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CeMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3981%2C3761146 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |title=Idaho hires coach |date=April 20, 1963 |page=2B}} then in NAIA; and both teams advanced to the 32-team national tournament in Kansas City, Missouri. Lewis & Clark won in the first round in 1962, and advanced to the quarterfinals in 1963;{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gRlWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=D-MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6176%2C2548901 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |agency=Associated Press |title=Lewis and Clark triumphs |date=March 14, 1963 |page=2D}} that team was inducted into the school's athletic hall {{nowrap|of fame.{{cite news|url=http://www.lcpioneers.com/information/PAC-HOF/Hall_of_Fame/hof_teams |publisher=Lewis and Clark College Athletics |agency=(Hall of Fame) |title=1962-63 men's basketball team |date=October 2, 2004 |accessdate=February 26, 2018 }}}}

After Idaho's successful 20–6 season in 1963 with Gus Johnson at center, head coach Joe Cipriano departed for Nebraska, and athletic director Skip Stahley hired Goddard {{nowrap|in April.}} He led the Vandals for the first three seasons of the six-team Big Sky Conference, then unexpectedly resigned in August 1966 for an administrative position at the Oregon department of education {{nowrap|in Salem.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SrteAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yTAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5231%2C3563872 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |title=Goddard quits Idaho coaching job |date=August 19, 1966 |page=14}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fb4zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zPcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6478%2C5287759 |work=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington)|title=Idaho opens quest for new hoop coach |date=August 19, 1966 |page=13}}}} He was succeeded by alumnus Wayne Anderson, a longtime assistant and head baseball coach.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v1dYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uvcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6512%2C2187863 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington)|title=Idaho hoop pick due; Anderson seen choice |date=September 8, 1966 |page=25}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wVdYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uvcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6253%2C2888430|newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington) |title=Idaho picks hoop coach |date=September 10, 1966 |page=11}}