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“Buddy Teevens, 1956-2023
Buddy Teevens, the football coach at Dartmouth, 66, died Thursday from injuries suffered in a bicycle accident last March. You may wonder why an Ivy League football coach deserves your attention. It’s because he’s one of the most significant coaches in the recent history of the game for his work on three fronts: player safety and caring for his players, giving women entry into this male bastion of a game, and his work with 1,200 youth players annually running the Manning Passing Academy.
Far and away, the player safety element is most important. In 2010, Teevens pledged to stop player-on-player tackling in practice, a vow he kept for the last 13 years of his coaching career. After becoming the first NCAA FBS or FCS coach to hire a full-time female coach in 2018, he had a woman on his staff annually; former Dartmouth aides Callie Brownson and Jennifer King are now full-time assistant running backs coaches in Cleveland and Washington, respectively. He organized every detail for 1,200 players and 120 counselor coaches each summer at Manning Passing Academy. “I don’t know how we run this camp without Buddy,” a glum Peyton Manningsaid Friday.
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“His death is a tragedy,” said friend and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. “But his life was not a tragedy. His life was a gift.”
Scroll way down in link to great Buddy T article.
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/fmia/news/nfl-devon-achane-dolphins-texans-stroud-packers-fmia-week-3-peter-king
Buddy Teevens, the football coach at Dartmouth, 66, died Thursday from injuries suffered in a bicycle accident last March. You may wonder why an Ivy League football coach deserves your attention. It’s because he’s one of the most significant coaches in the recent history of the game for his work on three fronts: player safety and caring for his players, giving women entry into this male bastion of a game, and his work with 1,200 youth players annually running the Manning Passing Academy.
Far and away, the player safety element is most important. In 2010, Teevens pledged to stop player-on-player tackling in practice, a vow he kept for the last 13 years of his coaching career. After becoming the first NCAA FBS or FCS coach to hire a full-time female coach in 2018, he had a woman on his staff annually; former Dartmouth aides Callie Brownson and Jennifer King are now full-time assistant running backs coaches in Cleveland and Washington, respectively. He organized every detail for 1,200 players and 120 counselor coaches each summer at Manning Passing Academy. “I don’t know how we run this camp without Buddy,” a glum Peyton Manningsaid Friday.
buddy peyton.jpg
“His death is a tragedy,” said friend and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. “But his life was not a tragedy. His life was a gift.”
Scroll way down in link to great Buddy T article.
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/fmia/news/nfl-devon-achane-dolphins-texans-stroud-packers-fmia-week-3-peter-king
