Former DePauw Assistant Buddy Teevens Talks About New Head Coaching Job at Stanford

September 10, 2002

September 10, 2002, Greencastle, Ind. - A Boston Globe article on Buddy Teevens, the new head football coach at Stanford University, states, "Teevens worked at DePauw University under Jerry Berndt, who gave Teevens his entree into the profession as a running backs coach in 1980." Teevens, who served as a head coach at Maine, Dartmouth and Tulane after leaving Greencastle, saw his team fall to Boston College 34-27 in Stanford's opening game over the weekend.

The Globe notes that, "At almost every stop, Teevens identified, recruited, and cultivated NFL-caliber quarterbacks, from Mike Buck at Maine to Jay Fiedler at Dartmouth to Shaun King at Tulane." The coach tells the paper, "To have an opportunity to be a head coach again at a place like Stanford University, to have a chance to go back home where I have a lot of friends and a lot of contacts and a lot of classmates from high school and college, it's exciting. People have been so supportive throughout [the process] with the calls, the letters, the e-mails, the notes I received, it's just overwhelming. It's nice to know people haven't forgotten you, and even though I'm not the world's greatest correspondent, I haven't forgotten where I came from."

You can access the complete story at the newspaper's Web site by clicking here.

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