Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Winning Ways

It would be hard to imagine any college football coach, camp and college getting a better review than Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens, his camp and the college received from a group that traveled up from Florida. Big Country Preps, "Tampa Bay's Source for Prep Sports," writes:
Plant Head Football Coach, Robert Weiner and Defensive Coordinator, John Few are chaperoning several Panthers players on a six-day tour of Ivy League camps, which include Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale. The tour is coming to an end and Coach Few provided BCP with some “On the road” observations.
You can find the whole piece here. What follows are a few excerpts taken verbatim from BCP:
• ALL the kids LOVED Dartmouth. I told them all that I think it is the prettiest campus in all of North America. They now know that I am not full of crap! It is GORGEOUS up there.

• Most impressive Head Coach, Buddy Teevens, with the way he treated us and our kids.

• Each kid has his own favorite; One liked Yale best, three Dartmouth and one Harvard.

• All thought the Brown and Dartmouth staffs did the best job recruiting.

• Brown and Dartmouth had the most efficiently run camps. Harvard’s was well run for as many kids as they had. Yale just had too many to handle.

• Most visible and involved coach at camp: Buddy Teevens by a landslide.

• We almost had to take one or two kids out of Hanover, NH under duress; they LOVED the town.
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Cane Insider reported on June 27 that running back Brian Grove was "offered" by Dartmouth. Check out a highlight video for the 5-foot-9, 188-pound rising senior from Kings Academy in West Palm Beach, Fla., here.

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Wherever you stand on having an inflatable moose with the "block D" on its chest, the character is immensely popular with the children of the Upper Valley. It's also popular with That Certain Hanover High Graduate, who strapped on the costume and marched through the heat in Hanover's Old Fashioned July 4th parade. She later pulled on another costume – that of a huge red bell – and led children on a lap in "The Running of the Bells" in front of Baker Libary. (Click to enlarge and click again to supersize.)

That's her being introduced to the crowd in the quick video clip below.

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