The local Valley News has a piece headlined, Admirers reflect on Buddy Teevens’ influence on their lives through the decades HERE.
One of the people sportswriter Tris Wykes spoke with was Kevin Price '14, a former Army Ranger who Teevens welcomed as a 31-year-old walk-on running back. From the story:
Quiet but powerfully determined, Price ran for 53 yards during a blowout of Columbia during his first varsity play, but it was negated by a holding penalty. At Teevens’ request, he later delivered a pregame speech before a crucial victory at Brown in which he described the Rangers experience. Interim head coach Sammy McCorkle said it was one of the most powerful addresses he’s ever heard.
“I was 10th string and I wasn’t bringing anything to the team, but (Teevens) fought for me after it looked like I’d run out of (athletic) eligibility because I’d started school at a community college. After the season, my Columbia run wasn’t going to be on the highlight reel because it was called back and he said, ‘No, it’s got to be on there.’
“I remember the deep care in his eyes, and he made the world a better place just by creating good men. I’d say he’s in the top five of most influential men I’ve ever met, and I’ve met some of the best Americans ever.”
The story also has thoughts from Bill Salvatore, a high school teammate of Teevens; Larry McElreavy, the former Columbia head coach who was instrumental in bringing Teevens to play quarterback at Dartmouth in his role as a freshman team assistant; Don Mahler, former sports editor of the Valley News; Byron Boston '81, one of Teevens' teammates; Chuck Young, who covered Big Green football as a student during Teevens' first tenure; Cindy Falzarano, Teevens' first administrative assistant in 1988; Ryan Danehy, a long snapper on the first Teevens II team; Foley Schmidt '12, who spoke of the lengths to which Teevens went to make sure he could succeed in college and as a kicker with diabetes; former quarterback Brian Mann '02, Teevens' first ops director; Jared Gerbino '20, who thanks Teevens for seeing he could be a quarterback, and Tom and Kim Hoyt, instrumental in the mentor program Teevens helped introduce.
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The Harvard Crimson has a piece headlined, Buddy’s Buddy: The Lifelong Friendship of Two Football Legends that includes this about friends Teevens and Harvard coach Tim Murphy (LINK):
A week before Teevens’ passing, Murphy missed the first in-season practice of his career to spend five hours with his friend, who was in critical condition in a Massachusetts hospital. When he returned to practice the next day, he spoke to the team about Teevens’ legacy.
“I brought the team together and talked about why I had missed practice and how powerful the sport of football can be, in terms of your connection for life,” Murphy recalled. “I think we all have our Buddy Teevens.”
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Week 2=Win#TheWoods pic.twitter.com/ieEfJVZxsw
— Dartmouth Football (@DartmouthFTBL) September 26, 2023
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The Wise Guys have spoken. Here's what they see this week:
Penn is a 3-point favorite at home over Dartmouth.
Princeton is a 7-point favorite at home over Columbia.
Brown is an 11½ -point favorite at home over Central Connecticut.
Cornell is a 7-point favorite at home over Colgate.
Holy Cross is a 10-point favorite at Harvard.
Yale is a 13½-point favorite at home over Morgan State.
New Hampshire is a 17-point favorite at home against Towson.
Lehigh is a 16-point underdog at Monmouth.
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There's a story out of Upstate New York headlined, Physical play leading Isaiah Johnson to success with SU. Isaiah Johnson '22, of course, is in his second year as a grad transfer corner at Syracuse. Here's the lede to the story that will have anyone in these parts who watched (and heard) Johnson in practice or games smiling (LINK):
Isaiah Johnson lets his play do the talking every time he takes the field for Syracuse.
Green Alert Take: Uh, no.
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How about a school district in Texas proposing a $94 million high school football stadium? Read about it HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
I was returning a call to an old friend yesterday and, because I don't have a cell phone, I had to dig up his number. The only one I could find had a 603 area code and because we connect mostly by email these days I wasn't sure he still had the same number since retiring to Florida.
I called the number and sure enough it was the right one.
I thought, "What a stupid I am!" That Certain Dartmouth '14 is living in a national park in Utah and we have to dial 603 to reach her. That Certain Nittany Lion '16 was living outside of Pittsburgh in the spring and it was the same deal. Cell numbers travel!
It used to be you would have to root through the phone book (remember those things?) to find the pages that listed area codes to figure out where someone was calling you from. Now you can Google it, but given people bringing their numbers with them when they move, good luck with that
More and more the term"area code" is a misnomer. Maybe the powers that be should rename those three numbers the "prefix."
