Buddy Teevens Eugene Francis " Buddy " Teevens III ( born October 1 , 1956 ) is the head football coach at Dartmouth College . He has previously served in the same position at the University of Maine , Tulane University , and Stanford University . Early life . Born in Pembroke , 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 . He was the quarterback of the Big Green team that won the Ivy League football title in 1978 . He was an honorable mention All - America that same year . He also played hockey while at Dartmouth ; in Teevens ' senior year , the hockey team finished third in the NCAA Men ' s Ice Hockey Championship . He graduated from Dartmouth in 1979 with an A . B . in History . Teevens was also selected to be a member of the Sphinx Senior Society at Dartmouth . Coaching career . 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 . In 1990 and 1991 , Dartmouth won the Ivy League championship . 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 receivers 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 end s , placekicker s , long snapper s , and holder s . 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 from 2002 to 2004 . In his three years at the Farm , his teams posted a 10 – 23 record , beat Brigham Young twice and San José State three times . However , Stanford failed to improve much during his tenure . 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 . 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 , their best record in 13 years . Personal life . Teevens and his wife , Kirsten , have two children : Lindsay , who graduated from the University of Florida in 2008 , and Eugene IV , who is a junior at Coastal Carolina University .