Teevens had worked in Greencastle, Ind., Boston, Orono, Maine, New Orleans, Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Gainesville, Fla., and Palo Alto, Calif., but his natural setting was in Hanover in the New Hampshire hills.
Teevens’s persistence and persuasiveness paid off. Nobody was better at selling four years among the pines.
The piece ends with a thought that I had as well:
He could have stayed on the sideline for another decade had he cared to. That had been his spot for so long that one couldn’t imagine anyone else in his place. The stadium has been called Memorial Field for a century. Perhaps now they’ll name the gridiron for Teevens, who made it his own.
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The Boston Globe obit was written by Pulitzer Prize winner David Shribman '76, who knew Teevens well. Find it HERE.
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It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our Camp Director, Coach Buddy Teevens. He inspired thousands of kids, through his teams and his camps. He fought the hard fight. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his wife, Kirsten, and the Teevens Family. pic.twitter.com/8gUnhmSJ55
— Manning Passing Academy (@mpa_info) September 20, 2023
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The always well done TigerBlog has an exceptional piece HERE that deserves a read.
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The Roar Lions Columbia blog has a posting about Teevens HERE and the Daily Pennsylvanian has a story HERE.
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With conference action heating up around the country (including two Ivy League games) The Analyst has written about who has won the most championships in each league. From that posting, which includes the conference's first season (LINK):
Ivy League (1956)
Current Title Leaders: Dartmouth with 20 (second – Penn – 18)
All-Time Leader: Same
The Breakdown: This is the only FCS conference in which every school has won a conference title. After Dartmouth and Penn, Harvard and Yale are right behind with 17 titles each, and Princeton has 13. Brown has four titles and Cornell three, while Columbia’s lone championship season occurred in 1961.
Defending Champion: Yale (6-1)
Green Alert Take: Did not know it was the only conference where every team has won a title.
For what it's worth, on Saturday Dartmouth will be playing the Patriot League's all-time title leader (Lehigh with 12 crowns since the league came online in 1986) and last week played the all-time CAA leader (New Hampshire with 14 since 1947). That number reflects that the CAA is descended from the old Yankee Conference.
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The wise guys have spoken with regard to Saturday's games and Dartmouth is a 15½ point home favorite over Lehigh. Elsewhere:
• Harvard is a 19½ point favorite at home over Brown
• Yale is a 14½ point favorite at home over Cornell
• Columbia is a 7½ point favorite at home over Georgetown
• Penn is a 14-point favorite at Bucknell
• Princeton is a 15½ point favorite at home over Bryant
Elsewhere . . .
• New Hampshire is a 2½ point underdog at Delaware
• Colgate is a 24½ point underdog at Holy Cross
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EXTRA POINT
Last spring Mrs. BGA and I bought two hanging baskets of flowers for our porch. I am Charlie Brown trying to kick that football when it comes to growing those things. This year I pledged to have them overflowing their baskets all summer and I was off to a good start. Unfortunately, when we made our three-week trip out to Bryce Canyon to visit That Certain Dartmouth '14 the plants did not get the water they needed in the hot sun. They were barren and mostly brown when we got back, with just a sprig or two of green on each.
Mrs. BGA cut the plants back to little more than the sprigs. I then religiously watered and fed them and marveled as they came back to life. They didn't have anywhere near the number of flowers they'd had – or should have had – but they grew bushy and green and that alone made me smile. When a few flowers appeared it was a bonus.
Now, with the days growing shorter and the nights colder, the plants are starting to wither. It is disappointing but there's satisfaction in knowing how far they came back and how much they thrived. It will be a long sixth months until spring but then I'll try again.
