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Buddy Teevens led Dartmouth football to back-to-back Ivy League titles in 1990 and 1991, his most recent championship coming in 2015.
Ali Hindy ’21 and his father, Ayman
‘Lead by Parties of One’
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UGENE FRANCIS “Buddy”
to compile quite the collegiate head
Teevens always wanted to be
coaching resume — with stops
a football player.
at University of Maine, Tulane
As a boy, in fact, he stuffed
and Dartmouth, where he’s now in
sized gym shorts and cautiously
his second stint on the sidelines of
tiptoed onto the scale — so
the gridiron at his alma mater.
desperate to crack the 100-pound
The Pembroke, Mass., native,
threshold required to play for his
who also worked on Steve
first Pop Warner gridiron squad.
Spurrier’s staff at University of
He made weight that day — and never looked back. Teevens starred at Silver Lake Regional High School in Kingston, Mass., and Deerfield Academy
Florida from 1999–2001, was the keynote speaker at the 87th Annual Father-Son Dinner, on Thursday, March 9. Teevens has long championed
before quarterbacking the
leadership and accountability
Dartmouth College football team to
among all of his players — and he
the Ivy League title in 1978.
did the same to the crowd of nearly
He was named the Ivy League and ECAC Player of the Year and played in the Blue-Gray Classic 03
University, Stanford University,
a five-pound plate into his over-
800 fathers, sons, and faculty on hand at Burke Field House. “Be true to yourself — that’s
that year — also lettering in hockey
the sincerest form of leadership,”
and helping to lead the Big Green
Teevens said. “We all have chances
01 Evan Lee ’21 and his father, David
to a third-place finish at the 1979
to lead, but we first have to see
02 Steve Evans P ’21, ’22, ’26, ’28
NCAA championship.
ourselves as leaders and lead by
03 Ed Forst P ’17 and Jeff Powers P ’17, ’17
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From there, Teevens has gone on
parties of one.
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