Title: Pre-game Meals

General Information about Item:

• Verbal Folklore: Custom
• 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 custom helps to bring the team closer together and get them pumped up before an away game.
• Social Context:
  • This is a custom that occurs before very away game where the team gets together to eat with one another.

Item:

• Custom: Pre-game meals
  • This is a custom that occurs before very away game where the team gets together to eat with one another. It is a custom that unifies the entire team.

Transcript of Associated File:

Coach Teevens: When we travel, pregame meals. It’s one area that I do have the seniority process; the seniors eat first, then the juniors, then the sophomores, then the freshmen.

Collector’s Name: Kristen Maiorano

Tags/Keywords:

Verbal Folklore, custom, football, pre-game meals