2021 Countdown to Bowling Green

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Coach Majors should have been more aggressive in this game and went for the win instead of the tie.

 

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Here is Larry Seivers on the 1976 Playboy All American Team

 

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Here's a football program from 8-3 Tennessee's 28-0 win over 4-6 Auburn in 1966

 

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Here's a program from the 1966 Gator Bowl won 18-12 by Tennessee



Floyd Little of Syracuse ran for 216 yards on 29 carries while Dewey Warren was 17-29 for 244 yards with 2 td passes

 

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Here is Larry Seivers on the 1976 Playboy All American Team

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Tampa Bay chose Rickey Bell over Tony Dorsett...........Rickey had a nice career, that was cut way too short due to a disease, but wasn’t Tony. Imagine how history would have changed

 

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137 days.........

In 1995, the Vols hosted Georgia. A young Peyton Manning threw for over 300 yards, but the steady running of Jay Graham helped keep Georgia’s offense off the field. Graham had 28 carries for 137 yards. He was the only Vol with positive yards on the ground in the 30-27 victory.

 

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In 1995, the Vols hosted Georgia. A young Peyton Manning threw for over 300 yards, but the steady running of Jay Graham helped keep Georgia’s offense off the field. Graham had 28 carries for 137 yards. He was the only Vol with positive yards on the ground in the 30-27 victory.View attachment 363876

I almost had a nervous breakdown because of how big a day Georgia running back Robert Edwards had in this game before he got hurt i think he had over 200 yards rushing. I think if he would have stayed healthy Georgia may have been 10-1 in 1995.

 

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Here is the program from the 1965 Tennessee-Alabama game that ended a 7-7 tie



Alabama quarterback Ken Stabler threw the ball out of bounds on 4th down ending the game

 

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Here is the program from the 1979 Tennessee 40-18 win over Notre Dame in Knoxville

 

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Maybe my favorite photo !

 

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Here is the program from the 1979 Tennessee 40-18 win over Notre Dame in Knoxville
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The Sylva Streak at his best!
Loved that dude. He was electric.

 

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The Sylva Streak at his best!
Loved that dude. He was electric.

It was too bad that Tennessee couldn't sign his brother Eric who was a hell of a receiver at North Carolina. I always heard their mother hated Johnny Majors.

 

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Maybe my favorite photo !

Awesome photo

 

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Tampa Bay chose Rickey Bell over Tony Dorsett...........Rickey had a nice career, that was cut way too short due to a disease, but wasn’t Tony. Imagine how history would have changed

Ricky Bell was a good running back but he was never in the class of Tony Dorsett. Seattle could have drafted Tony Dorsett also but they drafted Tulsa tackle Steve August who wound up being a flop in the NFL.

 

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@Border Vol deep in the bowels of the UT Library (yes, I recognize the catalogue stickers) finding new program covers to share with us.

 

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Here's the program and game film from Tennessee's 17-3 win over Georgia in Athens in 1969. Curt Watson had around 200 yards rushing in this game.

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this was a great game, my first in athens and was in stands with three dawgies ---one of whom was my date

 

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this was a great game, my first in athens and was in stands with three dawgies ---one of whom was my date

I've heard that Doug Dickey raised hell with Georgia over the poor condition of their visitors locker room.

 

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I have a lot of memorabilia, but my Manning signature is in my top 5.

 

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What section were your season tickets? Ours were in QQ.

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My binder of tickets are in storage, so I don’t know the section

I just remember they were on the 35/40 yard line. Vols side and close to where section T is today. Maybe 3/4 of the way up.

 

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136 Days...........

From 1999-2002, Leonard Scott blessed the Vols as a receiver and track star. Scott was a Gold Medalist in the World Indoor Championship in 2006. On the football field, Scoot was a speedster who could take the top off a defense. Scott caught 28 career passes for 328 yards and 3 TDs, and was a dynamic kick returner with 77 returns for 1,788 yards and a touchdown. Always a threat when on the field, he also had 14 carries for 136 yards and 2 TDs.

 

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135 yards.......

6 overtimes it took for the Vols to defeat Arkansas in 2002. With Cedric Houston out for the game, UT turned to the bruising Jabari Davis. Davis pounded away for 135 yards on 25 carries and 2 TDs in the 42-38 victory.

Davis’ 58 yard TD

 

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134 days...........

After the Vols barely beat Colorado State, the 1989 season looked troublesome, but attitudes changed the following week. UT traveled to LA to play #6 UCLA. Sterling Henton only threw for 109 yards, but the Cobb/Webb crew handled business. Chuck Webb had 22 carries for 134 yards and 2 TDs in the 24-6 victory. That victory could be said is what launched the Vols to the championship type teams they would have until the early 2000’s.

 

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