“A” Day

Title: “A” Day

General Information about Item:

  • Genre and Sub Genre
    • Customary Folklore: Custom
  • Language: English
  • United States of America

Informant Data:

  • Name: Buddy Teevens
    • Dartmouth YG: 1979
    • Residence: Hanover, New Hampshire
    • Years of experience coaching: 26 years
    • Current position: Head Coach of Dartmouth Football

Contextual Data:

  • Social Context
    • The coaches acknowledge the students for their success in the classroom in a group setting with the rest of the team.
  • Cultural Context
    • This custom allows the coaches and team to acknowledge the success these student athletes have in the classroom, in a way to help promote a healthy idea of academic excellence on the team.

Item:

Custom: “A” Day

  • To demonstrate academic excellence, every Thursday the coaches look at their players’ grades from that week, and put together a power point for their meeting that afternoon to congratulate those players for earning an “A” on his assignments.

Associated file (a video, audio, or image file):

Transcript of Associated File:

  • Coach Teevens: Its a way that I can demonstrate excellence in the academic arena. So we just sit around here on Thursday and we go through every name, by name of my kids on my team and I write down anybody that goes in the ‘A’  list and the academic advisor for anyone she needs to see. That afternoon we put a powerpoint up on the board, and its pretty cool. And its a competition as well, guys up there with, the triple called, guys get a triple and you get your own name and your own round of applause. You can sit back down and say ‘taught week for you’. (laughs from Hailey, Kristen and Evie). So its helped us with our academic success…..

Collector’s Name:

Evelyn Bird

Tags/Keywords:

Academics, Custom, Customary Folklore, Football

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