He was the head coach at Idaho for three seasons and previously at his alma mater Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

In each of the last two years, the Pioneers won the season title in the Northwest Conference,[3] 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;[4] that team was inducted into the school's athletic hall of fame.

[5] 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 in April.

[1] 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 in Salem.