Buddy Teevens

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Eugene Francis Teevens III, more commonly known as Buddy Teevens (b. October 1, 1956, Pembroke, Massachusetts) is the head football coach at Dartmouth College.

Contents 1 Early life, college career, and personal life 2 Dartmouth coaching career 3 Stanford coaching career 4 Other coaching career 5 External links

[edit] Early life, college career, and personal life

Born in Pembroke, Teevens attended Silver Lake Regional High School in Kingston, Massachusetts, and Deerfield Academy. He attended college at Dartmouth, and played quarterback there from 1975 to 1978.

He was the quarterback of the Big Green team that won the Ivy League football title in 1978. He was an honorable mention All-America that same year. He also played hockey while at Dartmouth; the team finished third that year in the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship

In 1979, he graduated from Dartmouth with an A.B. in History.

Teevens and his wife, Kirsten, have two children: Lindsay and Eugene IV.

[edit] Dartmouth coaching career

Teevens' first stint with the Big Green, from 1987 to 1991, showed an upward trend. Beginning with a 2-8 record, Dartmouth then had successive years of 5-5 and 7-2-1. In 1990 and 1991, Dartmouth won the Ivy League championship.

Teevens was re-hired as coach on January 5, 2005, and in the 2005 season, the Big Green posted a 2-8 record. As of the end of October 2006, Teevens has an overall record of 28-36-2 as the head coach at Dartmouth.

[edit] Stanford coaching career

Teevens coached at Stanford from 2002 to 2004. In his three years at the Farm, his teams posted a 10-23 record, beat Brigham Young twice and San José State three times. However, Stanford failed to improve much during his tenure. Teevens went winless against in-state rivals USC, Cal, and UCLA, and never posted a win against a team that finished the season with a winning record. Teevens was fired on November 29, 2004.

[edit] Other coaching career

Teevens' first coaching job was running backs coach at DePauw University from 1979 to 1980. He was the offensive coordinator at Boston University from 1981 to 1984.

From 1985 to 1986, he was the head coach at the University of Maine. He had an overall record of 13-9 there. After his first head coaching job at Dartmouth, Teevens was the coach at Tulane University from 1992 to 1996. While he had an overall record of 11-45 in five years at Tulane, he recruited many of the players on the 1998 team that went 11-0.

Between 1997 and 1998, Teevens was the offensive coordinator and receivers coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for head coach Ron Turner.

In 1999, Teevens was the running backs coach at the University of Florida. The next year, he coached the passing game, wide receivers, tight ends, placekickers, long snappers, and holders. He coached tight ends in 2001 along with being the assistant offensive coordinator. In his three years at Florida, he coached under Steve Spurrier.

[edit] External links

• Biography at Dartmouth College athletics website
• Biography at Stanford University athletics website
• Coaching records

Preceded by Ronald Rogerson	Maine Head Football Coach 1985–1986	Succeeded by Timothy Murphy
Preceded by Joseph Yukica	Dartmouth College Head Football Coach 1987–1991	Succeeded by John Lyons
Preceded by Greg Davis	Tulane University Head Football Coach 1992–1996	Succeeded by Tommy Bowden
Preceded by Tyrone Willingham	Stanford University Head Football Coach 2002–2004	Succeeded by Walt Harris
Preceded by John Lyons	Dartmouth College Head Football Coach 2005–	Succeeded by Current