Without saying your age, who was your favorite player when you first started watching football?

[Sgt.Rock]

The Swamp Rat, Dewey Warren. Interviewed him in my sports writer job later when he was a high school coach in Copperhill, TN.

 

[BeecherVol]

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My late cousin was a Fr walk-on in 81'.
He was a scout team RB his first year. He had some Reggie stories.

 

[Waxhaw Vol]

Sonny Jurgensen

 

[RFlynn]

Bobby Majors

 

[RFlynn]

For the pros it was Joe Willie

 

[ZippyMorocco]

Butkus

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Butkus was as big as the guards and could run with the backs.

 

[GoVols15]

Dewey "Swamp Rat" Warren (college) and Bart Starr (pro)

 

[GVF]

Steve Bartkowski/Lynn Swan/Earl Campbell/Wilbert Montgomery

Willie Gault

 

[foxxvol]

I’ll start, Condredge Holloway.

Johnny Unitas

 

[loosecannon]

James Stewart. I but as I got over I loved watching Will Oversteet play. The dude had a motor.

 

[Lilcarl731]

I was lucky it was Peyton

 

[sccshortstop]

Jimmy Streeter and Stanley Morgan

 

[alvinkamara]

Heath Schuler

 

[Orange12]

Glenn Glass and Mallon Faircloth have both been mentioned. They were the last of Tennessee single wing tailbacks

 

[ArdentVol]

Chuck Webb

when healthy, posibly the best modern-era RB at UT

 

[Hartsvol]

Condredge

 

[ArdentVol]

Glenn Glass and Mallon Faircloth have both been mentioned. They were the last of Tennessee single wing tailbacks

watched them often with Dad in his Section R seatss;
Canale brothers and Bo Schafer, too

 

[TNDeb3]

Ed "Too Tall" Jones of the Dallas Cowboys.

 

[Orange12]

watched them often with Dad in his Section R seatss;
Canale brothers and Bo Schafer, too

Remember the freshman foot races? I think one of the Canales broke his arm running into the wall in South end zone. And punted the ball into the seats after scoring a touchdown in some game.

 

[1972 Grad]

Remember the freshman foot races? I think one of the Canales broke his arm running into the wall in South end zone. And punted the ball into the seats after scoring a touchdown in some game.

I forgot about that. Didn't they race barefooted from one end zone to the other, have to find their own shoes out of a huge pile, and race back to the other end zone? Am I remembering that right?

 

[HollowaytoSeivers]

Travis Stephens

I've mentioned this before; my dad was the on-field clock operator for Henry County after retiring from officiating. Dad said the greatest game he ever saw a player have was Travis Stevens for Clarksville Northeast literally running wild for 359 yards against the Patriots. I think that game was in 1995. I forgave him for that when he signed with Tennessee.

 

[ArdentVol]

Remember the freshman foot races? I think one of the Canales broke his arm running into the wall in South end zone. And punted the ball into the seats after scoring a touchdown in some game.

yes ... cant remember if they ran from one ez to another, shoe thing seems correct

 

[Orange12]

I forgot about that. Didn't they race barefooted from one end zone to the other, have to find their own shoes out of a huge pile, and race back to the other end zone? Am I remembering that right?

That's right. The stadium was still a horse shoe and they started in the south end zone

 

[bigorangewildcat]

Eddie Brown , Jackie Walker

 

[Stark_Vol]

Leonard Little and Joey Kent