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Oct. 6—A year after his death, Dartmouth College dedicated the school’s footrball stadium to longtime coach Buddy Teevens.
A ceremony was held Friday night to dedicate the stadium and honor Teevens, who was a quarterback for the Big Green in the 1970s and had a 117-101-2 record as Dartmouth’s head coach.
“Tonight, we bestow one of the greatest honors endowed upon us as an institution,” President Sian Leah Beilock told more than 700 attendees assembled at the stadium’s main gate. “We dedicate a building — this majestic stadium, the home of Big Green football — and in doing so, we proudly hold up the example of one individual so that generations of future Dartmouth students, along with football fans everywhere, will always know and remember the great Buddy Teevens.”
Teevens, she said, was a visionary leader.
“Tough, independent, competitive to the last down, never afraid to stand up for what was right or try things in a new way,” she said. “And above all, a belief in team and community, in the idea that everyone, no matter who you are, has a role to play.”
Teevens led Dartmouth to the Ivy League title in 1978, and coached the Big Green to five league championships.
As a coach, Teevens worked to minimize concussions and banned tackling in practice. Working with Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Enginreering, the Mobile Virtual Player, a robotic tackling dummy designed to reduce injuries, was developed
Teevens also made history by recruiting and hiring the first full-time female football coach in Division I football.
“Renaming the stadium reinforces that all that he was and all he stood for will not just be part of history but part of the future too,” said Teevens’s wife Kirsten.
“Coach Teevens was so much more than a coach for us players. He was truly a mentor in every aspect of our lives,” said Dartmouth linebacker Micah…
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Author : New Hampshire Union Leader, Manchester
Publish date : 2024-10-06 22:46:00
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