Buddy Teevens was the winningest football coach in Dartmouth history.
Teevens was instrumental in implementing safety measures to make the sport safer, according to the cable sports network. In 2010, he became the first coach to eliminate full-contact practices throughout the year,The idea was adopted by the Ivy League in 2016, and Teevens’ efforts led to the creation of a robot tackling device by Dartmouth’s engineering school. The Mobile Virtual Player would be used in the NFL and by other college football teams, the sports news organization reported.
As a senior, he led Dartmouth to an Ivy League championship and was named the Ivy League Player of the Year, according to the school’s football media guide.He served as the offensive coordinator and receivers coach at the University of Illinois in 1997 and 1998, and from 1998 to 2001, rising to assistant offensive coordinator in 2001, according to the Dartmouth football media guide.
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