Princeton Game – Coaches | Dartmouth Folklore Archive

Title: Princeton Game

General Information about Item:

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
Name: Curt Oberg
- Dartmouth YG: 1978
- Residence: Hanover, New Hampshire
- Years of association with Dartmouth Football as an assistant coach: 3
- Current position: Special Assistant to the Head Coach

Contextual Data:

Social Context
- This story is told by the coaches to the players, when they are in need of motivation.
Cultural Context
- Used to teach players Dartmouth Football mentality and culture. It uses the importance of toughness and the mentality of “them and us.” This means that it doesn’t matter who they play, it only matters that they play Dartmouth Football.

Item:

Tale: Princeton Game

A story of Princeton being one the best teams in the nation
At the end of the game a blizzard started and whited out the sky.
In the end, Dartmouth won the football game and demonstrated what type of team they really were.

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

Transcript of Associated File:

Coach Oberg: Princeton was undefeated, Dartmouth was you know very good too, I think they had one lose, or two loses but it was the last game of the year….

Coach Teevens: They had a chance to win sole possession of the championship. And their coming up, and sometimes you say stuff and you don’t know how it resonates with guys, but I know that one specifically, was hey the guys are coming up, they’re getting in their gucci loafers, and the wrap around tie the to collard sweaters and they’re getting into the bus and they coming up here and they think they own you guys. But interns toughness they don’t know what they are stepping into, its cold and rainy and all that, it doesn’t make a difference, thats where we live thats what we do. And its the toughest team is going to win on Saturday, and we came out and we played real good football. Then all of a sudden real late in the 4th quarter it starts snowing and my guys go “ahhhhh” and I mean they just went in the tank. And then we physically beat them up and beat them down, it was a tremendous win. That stuffs probably embellished I don’t think i did anything special other then just said hey thats them this is us, as a true Ivy. You kind of make stuff up as you go along.

Collector’s Name:

Evelyn Bird

Tags/Keywords:

Toughness, Tale, Verbal Folklore, Football

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