Title: Color Chart

General Information about Item:

• Verbal Folklore: material
• 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:

• Cultural Context:
  • This chart fosters a desire among the Dartmouth football players to maintain a certain level of focus. They speak about this chart in regards to their mindset frequently.
• Social Context:
  • The coaches created a color wheel so that they can discuss the mindset that players are in, or should be in, while they are on the field.

Item:

• Material: ‘D’ in the Locker room
  • This D on the locker room floor commands respect from the players and instills pride in being a Dartmouth football player.

Transcript of Associated File:

Coach Teevens: With preparation and focus, you mentioned the chart down there. We talk about going into the black, if you haven’t seen it, it’s white, yellow, its just a spectrum. It’s white, yellow, orange, red, black. And the deal is, I actually got this from a special ops guy, he came back from his tour in Afghanistan and he was on campus, and he said it kind of tells you this mental awareness. If you know white is kind of like a California mindset, sometimes we refer to it as. Oblivious to one thing, not really focused. Black is the other extreme where you’re so hyped you just you can’t react, you can’t think you can’t function. You can’t make a pass, so those are the two areas you can’t be in. If we got a two and a half hour practice you can’t be in what we term the high red. We want to be in the upper edge right on the cusp of going into the black but not going in. So you’re still in control, you’re lazered in, and how do you get to that point and you’re not there all the time. So often you’re on the field you want to go into the high red, you don’t want to go into the white or the yellow or the orange, but you can’t be up in the high red at that point so you got to drift back and then you get back up and that’s really a skill to be able to focus your attention when it’s most needed. And then you get a varied group on our team you got sophomores juniors seniors all in a group, and they all have gotta be lazered in together.

Collector’s Name: Kristen Maiorano

Tags/Keywords:

Verbal Folklore, material, football, color chart