Eugene Francis "Buddy" Teevens III is an American football coach and former player.
Education
Born in Pembroke, Massachusetts, Teevens attended Silver Lake Regional High School in Kingston, Massachusetts and Deerfield Academy. He attended college at Dartmouth, and played quarterback there from 1975 to 1978. Teevens also played hockey while at Dartmouth.
In Teevens" senior year, the hockey team finished third in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Men"s Ice Hockey Championship.
He graduated from Dartmouth in 1979 with an Bachelor of Arts in history.
Career
He is the head football coach at Dartmouth College, a position he held from 1987 to 1991 and resumed in 2005. Teevens also served as the head football coach at the University of Maine (1985–1986), Tulane University (1992–1996), and Stanford University (2002–2004). He was an honorable mention All-America that same year.
Early positions
Teevens" first coaching job was as running backs coach at DePauw University from 1979 to 1980.
He was then offensive coordinator at Boston University from 1981 to 1984. From 1985 to 1986, he was the head coach at the University of Maine.
He had an overall record of 13–9 there. Dartmouth
Teevens" first stint with the Big Green, from 1987 to 1991, showed an upward trend.
Beginning with a 2–8 record, Dartmouth then had successive years of 5–5 and 7–2–1.
Tulane
After his first head coaching job at Dartmouth, Teevens was the coach at Tulane University from 1992 to 1996. While he had an overall record of 11–45 in five years at Tulane, he recruited many of the players on the 1998 team that went 11-0. Return to assistant coaching
Between 1997 and 1998, Teevens was the offensive coordinator and wide receiver coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for head coach Ron Turner.
In 1999, Teevens was the running backs coach at the University of Florida.
The next year, he coached the passing game, wide receivers, tight ends, placekickers, long snappers, and holders. He coached tight ends in 2001 along with being the assistant offensive coordinator.
In his three years at Florida, he coached under Steve Spurrier. Stanford
Teevens coached at Stanford University from 2002 to 2004.
In his three years at the Farm, his teams posted a 10–23 record, beat Brigham Young University twice and San Jose State three times.
However, Stanford failed to improve much during his tenure. Teevens was fired on November 29, 2004. The Associated Press noted that Teevens was "respected for his class and loyalty" and that he even appeared at the official announcement of his firing.
Return to Dartmouth
Teevens was re-hired as Dartmouth"s head coach on January 5, 2005, and in the 2005 season, the Big Green posted a 2–8 record.
As of the end of 2009, Teevens has an overall record of 35–63–2 as the head coach at Dartmouth. However, in the 2010 season, Dartmouth seemed to turn the corner under Teevens, posting a 6–4 record, its best record in 13 years.
In the 2014 season the team was 6-1 in the Ivy League, losing only to Harvard, behind whom it finished in second place.
Membership
Teevens was also selected to be a member of the Sphinx Senior Society at Dartmouth.