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Women get their feet in football coaching door

Nothing in his football life could fully prepare Buddy Teevens for what happened this summer.

Not his years as a college quarterback. Certainly not the decades he spent coaching at Tulane and Stanford and, most recently, Dartmouth.

"I really didn't know much about women in the game," he says.

So when the 61-year-old Teevens was asked to run a one-day football clinic for girls and women - as part of a larger, prestigious camp for high school boys - he went looking for help.

Word got around and more than a dozen women signed up to work the June event. Some

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