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Stephen Colbert tackles Dartmouth dummy on 'Late Night' (Video)

Dartmouth’s robotic tackling dummy has gone national.

The “Mobile Virtual Player,” or MVP for short, was created at the Dartmouth School of Engineering to help prevent practice injuries for the football team. And on Thursday night, Big Green head coach Buddy Teevens was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to talk about it.

Since introducing the MVP, Teevens’ players never tackle one another during practice and the coach said the team has seen a significant reduction in injuries.

And Colbert, of course, had to try it out for himself.

Colbert could use some work on his technique.

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