In 2010 did the unthinkable and Head Coach Buddy Teevens of the Dartmouth College football team  banned tackling from all practices, in-season, spring football, and the pre-season.

This is the main change he made of many to promote player safety in his program and the whole Ivy League  since because of him the whole Ivy League conference bans tackling in in-season practices as well. Many football fans think taking to many precautions will ruin the game of football and make it less enjoyable, but Teevens thinks things have to change to make the game safer so it endures. ” ‘Oh, we’ll do something else,’ he said. “But I also look at the data and the medical side of it. Something has to be done.”

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