Title: ‘D’ in the Locker room

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 D on the locker room floor commands respect from the players and instills pride in being a Dartmouth football player.
• Social Context:
  • This letter exists on the floor of the Dartmouth football locker room and it is socially unacceptable to step on this “D”.

Item:

• Material: ‘D’ in the Locker room
  • This letter exists on the floor of the Dartmouth football locker room and it is socially unacceptable to step on this “D”. Players will push or tackle you off of the D if you step on it as a sign of respect for Dartmouth football and its long tradition.

Transcript of Associated File:

Coach Teevens: There’s a D there and it’s one thing that you never step on the D, and it’s kind of just a sign of respect. And if somebody’s in there, guys will tackle someone off and you get shoved off, and it’s kind of a subtle respect for the place and the history and the tradition and the fact that it goes back a long, long way a hundred plus years of football, and the number of people that have played…

Collector’s Name: Kristen Maiorano

Tags/Keywords:

Verbal Folklore, material, football, D