20 Facts About Buddy Teevens

Eugene Francis "Buddy" Teevens III was an American college football player and coach.

Buddy Teevens played as a quarterback at Dartmouth College, where he was later the head coach from 1987 to 1991 and from 2005 until his death.

Buddy Teevens served as the head football coach at the University of Maine, Tulane University, and Stanford University.

Buddy Teevens attended college at Dartmouth where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi and played quarterback there from 1975 to 1978.

Buddy Teevens was a backup for then quarterback Kevin Case, who won the Dartmouth MVP in 1976.

Buddy Teevens was the quarterback of the Big Green team that won the Ivy League football title in 1978.

Buddy Teevens was an honorable mention All-America that same year.

Buddy Teevens played hockey while at Dartmouth; in Buddy Teevens' senior year, the hockey team finished third in the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship.

Buddy Teevens was a member of the Sphinx Senior Society while at Dartmouth.

Buddy Teevens' first coaching job was as running backs coach at DePauw University from 1979 to 1980.

Buddy Teevens was then offensive coordinator at Boston University from 1981 to 1984.

Between 1997 and 1998, Buddy Teevens was the offensive coordinator and wide receiver coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for head coach Ron Turner.

In 1999, Buddy Teevens was the running backs coach at the University of Florida.

Buddy Teevens coached tight ends in 2001 along with being the assistant offensive coordinator.

Buddy Teevens went winless against rivals USC, Cal, and Notre Dame, and never posted a win against a team that finished the season with a winning record.

The Associated Press wrote that Buddy Teevens was "respected for his class and loyalty" and that he even appeared at the official announcement of his firing.

Buddy Teevens won five Ivy League titles with Dartmouth, second most in team history next to Bob Blackman, who won seven with Dartmouth.

Buddy Teevens was known nationally for his support and efforts towards making the sport safer, having worked to reduce full-contact practices by emphasizing technique, eventually leading to Dartmouth's engineering school developing the "Mobile Virtual Player", a robotic tackling dummy eventually becoming used by other colleges and NFL teams.

On March 16,2023, Buddy Teevens was hit by a Ford F-150 truck in St Augustine, Florida, while riding his bicycle.

Buddy Teevens died on September 19,2023, from the injuries he sustained in the accident.