Harvard's greatest football coach—and one of the best anywhere." The story touches on how Harvard's Tim Murphy and Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens were high school teammates and remain best friends.
It also reminds us that the Ivy League has Teevens partially to blame for Murphy heading up the Harvard juggernaut for the past couple of decades instead of running Proctor & Gamble or Hewlett Packard or some such business.
Murphy told the writer of the story:
"I set a goal that I would be a head coach by the time I was 30, and if not, I was going to go back and get my M.B.A."While a Teevens assistant at Maine, Murphy had been accepted by Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and the Darden School of Business at Virginia. His deadline to become a head coach by age 30 had passed and he was set to leave football behind and start school at Northwestern when everything changed.
From the story:
Before Murphy could become a business student, Teevens resigned to become head coach at his alma mater. Murphy was offered the Black Bears job. “I’d worked so hard to get into a good school and I was so conflicted,” he says. “I asked Kellogg to defer me for a year and I’ll get this head coaching thing out of my system. Twenty-eight years later, I still haven’t.”
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The Ivy League release for Week 6 has been posted HERE. A couple of observations:• Dartmouth is the only school not to have a running back in the Ivy League top 10 for yards per game. Conversely, it's the only Ivy League school to have a quarterback in the top 10 in rushing.
Quarterback Dalyn Williams is seventh in the Ivies with 45.6 yards per game rushing. Big Green senior Kyle Bramble would be right ahead of him with 46.0 but having missed two games he doesn't qualify for the stats.
Dartmouth will see the second-leading rusher among quarterbacks Saturday in Columbia's Skyler Mornhinweg, who has run for 29.0 yards per game. Harvard's Scott Hosch is next with 26.2.
• Hosch is second in pass efficiency behind Williams and is right up there with Williams in terms of protecting the football. The Dartmouth quarterback has 13 touchdown passes with one interception. Hosch has 10 touchdown throws with one interception.
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Speaking of Mornhinweg and Columbia, the Roar Lions football blog has a very complimentary look at Dartmouth in advance of Saturday's game. Find it HERE.
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Columbia's advance story on Saturday's game is HERE and there's a link to the game notes that isn't working as of this morning.
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A column in the Cornell Sun includes this line:Ivy League football just isn’t very good.Editor's Note: The columnist might be watching the wrong teams. The 22 NFL scouts who have come through Hanover this fall might beg to differ.
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Buddy Teevens gets a brief mention in a column by onetime Florida Gator Shannon Snell about Steve Spurrier's retirement. (LINK)
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FBS teams cannot count wins over Ivy League teams toward bowl qualification. But BYU will be able to count this Saturday's romp over winless Wagner (yes I just wrote that). Wagner, which lost to Columbia a couple of weeks ago, brings the worst scoring average (13.1 points) and the worst defense (33.3 points against) in the Northeast Conference to Provo. Wagner lost its opener at Rice, 56-16.Here's a quote from Wagner coach Jason Houghtaling:
"I've said it a number of times the past couple of days, it's about the student-athlete experience. We want to give them the best possible experience they can have. Taking a charter to Utah and playing in a stadium that big, being on a national stage."Editor's Note: An FBS game can be a "best possible experience" but this one?
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Fox Sports had a nice piece on Chicago Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks and how he finished up his Dartmouth degree after beginning his pro baseball career. (LINK)
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This was a ridiculously bountiful year for our apple trees here on Moose Mountain but it wasn't the best foliage season. That said, it was still pretty. Check out Dartmouth's photo album of foliage on campus HERE.
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The second Q&A featuring your questions for Buddy Teevens appeared on BGA Premium last night. I'll post it for all to see next week. If you don't want to wait, you can read the Q&A and the whole season's worth of stories by taking advantage of the BGA Premium midseason discount HERE.