This evening, Dartmouth head coach Buddy Teevens passed away.
The tragic passing came today following injuries he sustained in a bike accident back in March when he was struck by a pickup truck and. As a result, he had his right leg amputated and had suffered spinal cord injuries
Teevens, who also served as head coach at Maine, Tulane, and Stanford was 66 years old.
In their official release of the news, Dartmouth shares that they will plan to honor Buddy's legacy to the Dartmouth community in a number of ways over the coming weeks and months, and the team will play this weekend, "as Buddy would have wanted."
Buddy played quarterback for the program, earning Ivy League Player of the Year honors in 1978 before
In 2019, he became the winningest coach in Dartmouth football history, and spent more than 30 years as a head coach, including 22 seasons leading his beloved alma mater.
Well after cemeting a coaching legacy that rivals 99% of the coaching community, Teevens became nationally known for his quest to make football safer with the development of the Mobile Virtual Player (MVP), which was aimed at reducing the need for full-contact practices.
In 2018, he became a trailblazer in a different way by hiring Callie Brownson at Dartmouth, where she became the first full-time female coach at the Division I level, and was also a member of the renowned Manning Passing Academy for 25 years.
Leading Dartmouth, Teevens accumulated a record of 117-101-2, includuing an 83-70-1 mark in Ivy League play.
Dartmouth hosts Lehigh Saturday at Memorial field, in what will be an emotional day for the campus community.
Please join us in praying for the family of coach Teevens and those grieving his loss.