Bill Justus tribute on Sept 30

[Savannahbayvol]

a true VFL, could have been an ALL-SEC db if he had chosen football rather than hoops.

Tribute to Bill Justus at Fulton High

Former Tennessee Vol and Fulton High School basketball player Bill Justus will be memorialized at the Fulton High School gym on Monday, Sept. 30, at 6:30 p.m. Organizer Randy Webb said there's no charge to attend and everyone is welcomed. At Fulton High School, Bill Justus was all-state in...

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[Caspian]

Bill Justus, Bill Hann, Tom Boerwinkle, Tom Hendrix, Bobby Croft, Larry Mansfield, and coach Ray Mears. That was the team when I discovered Tennessee basketball in 1967. I can still picture the routine Justus had at the free throw line. A different era. A different game.

 

[wmcovol]

Bill Justus, Bill Hann, Tom Boerwinkle, Tom Hendrix, Bobby Croft, Larry Mansfield, and coach Ray Mears. That was the team when I discovered Tennessee basketball in 1967. I can still picture the routine Justus had at the free throw line. A different era. A different game.

You left off the best player, Ron Widby

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Bill Justus, Bill Hann, Tom Boerwinkle, Tom Hendrix, Bobby Croft, Larry Mansfield, and coach Ray Mears. That was the team when I discovered Tennessee basketball in 1967. I can still picture the routine Justus had at the free throw line. A different era. A different game.

Croft and Mansfield were freshmen and weren’t on the varsity until a year later. Wes Coffman was the 6th man.

Widby (F)
Justus (G)
Boerwinkle (C)
Hendrix (F)
Hann (G)
Coffman (G)

 

[feathersax]

You left off the best player, Ron Whiby.

Yes, but it's spelled Widby. Billy "the Legend" Justus: could hit free throws in his sleep.

 

[Volfan1000]

a true VFL, could have been an ALL-SEC db if he had chosen football rather than hoops.

Tribute to Bill Justus at Fulton High

Former Tennessee Vol and Fulton High School basketball player Bill Justus will be memorialized at the Fulton High School gym on Monday, Sept. 30, at 6:30 p.m. Organizer Randy Webb said there's no charge to attend and everyone is welcomed. At Fulton High School, Bill Justus was all-state in...

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Fulton High School has sent some great athletes to Tennessee.

 

[VOLLeeann]

Bill Justus, Bill Hann, Tom Boerwinkle, Tom Hendrix, Bobby Croft, Larry Mansfield, and coach Ray Mears. That was the team when I discovered Tennessee basketball in 1967. I can still picture the routine Justus had at the free throw line. A different era. A different game.

My Dad has film and often scrimmaged off-season in SAC with this group. Jimmy England, Rudy Kinard, etc. too. Mansfield was from Memphis and played with my Dad at Frayser HS.

 

[wmcovol]

Bill was a great player & better man. Very humble & kind. Spoke to him a couple times & he was very accommodating.

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

You left off the best player, Ron Widby

Quietly, real quietly, Spook Hendrix made the defense what it was running the entire baseline in the vaunted 1-3-1 defense we employed. Takes a lot of endurance to make that hold up a whole game. Not sure I ever saw him break from that dead pan expression he had. A supreme roll player.

 

[wmcovol]

Quietly, real quietly, Spook Hendrix made the defense what it was running the entire baseline in the vaunted 1-3-1 defense we employed. Takes a lot of endurance to make that hold up a whole game. Not sure I ever saw him break from that dead pan expression he had. A supreme roll player.

The baseline defender had to be a great athlete & in great condition. Kentucky, for example, would put Pat Riley in one corner & Louie Dampier in the other. Both were great shooters but Tennessee won both games so Hendrix played great.

 

[VOLtaism]

I remember vividly listening to the radio broadcast to the UT-MSU road game. The Vols needed a win for the SEC title. It came down to Justus hitting 2 free throws. Ward called the second one, "its in the air, pause, tie an orange bow on it and send back to Knoxville Tn.!"

 

[GameTime]

When I was just a kid, I went to McDonald's on Broadway and low and behold Bill Justice was working the counter....I tried to say Vanilla Milkshake, but I was so thrilled it was him I couldn't form the words....I just stuttered again and again....When I finally got the words out he said "there you go" and got me the milkshake....

I believe he was still at Fulton High school at the time...And bye the way, the milkshake was great.