Beneath A Bigger Picture, There Are Ivy Titles To Be Won

For anyone who is an Ivy League sports fan, the news about Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens hits hard. 

There are some things that are bigger than rivalries and games and championships. Ivy League athletics are unique, and the people who compete in them, coach them, administrate them and root for them buy into a different brand of college athletics than exist anywhere else.

Teevens, if you missed it, was involved in a terrible bicycle accident in Florida. His wife announced earlier this week that Teevens has had one leg amputated and has suffered spinal chord injuries as well.

The Princeton-Dartmouth football rivalry has been a great one in recent years. Teevens and Princeton head coach Bob Surace threw out the first pitch at a Yankees game in 2019, before the teams played at Yankee Stadium to commemorate the 150th anniversary of college football. The 2018 game between the teams in Princeton is one of the greatest Ivy football games ever played.

There is no one at Princeton, or anywhere in the league, who isn't rooting for Teevens. TigerBlog has never met him, but the people he knows who know him have only good things to say about him. 

This is a quote TB saw from Eli Manning: 

"Thoughts and prayers are with Coach Teevens and his family. I have known Coach since I was 12 years old when I attended Tulane football camp. There is not a better man."

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