Bobby Majors is a legend

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utfantilidie said:
I agree. The entire Majors family is legend starting with dad Shirley. As a young boy I went to an orange and white game with my dad and got his elbow or knee pad after the game. The older days and ways seemed so different and better.
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Nostalgia. I am afraid we are in for a heavy dose of it in the days ahead until the current state of the program improves. Sigh.
 
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Boca Vol said:
Playing Penn St. the last game of the year. That had to be pretty cool!

I caddied for Conrad Graham back in 2000 when I lived in Charleston and worked at Kiawah Island.
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You would never see two non-conference heavy weights of the game playing like that today at the end of the season.

Give Bob Woodruff the credit for that one. He was a great athletic director. He was an even better scheduler. Tell me how on earth he was able to get Penn State to agree to play two games in Knoxville with no game for Penn State played at State College, Pa.?
 
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esarmstrong said:
You would never see two non-conference heavy weights of the game playing like that today at the end of the season.

Give Bob Woodruff the credit for that one. He was a great athletic director. He was an even better scheduler. Tell me how on earth he was able to get Penn State to agree to play two games in Knoxville with no game for Penn State played at State College, Pa.?
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About the biggest one I can think of UF-FSU to end the season. But I agree, I don't think you would see a non-instate non-conference game to end the season.

Didn't he also get UCLA to play UT in Memphis as a neutral field game? I have no idea what PSU was thinking not demanding a home and home.
 
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I remember seeing Bobby Majors 'hold court' at Silky's in Memphis back in the early 70's ( when drinking age was 18). It was full of Ole Miss fans as Memphis bars usually were yet he still held everyone's attention. He was a hero to me b4 I went off to UT from Memphis.
 
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Bobby Majors may well be my favorite UT player of all time. Stanley Morgan, Richmond Flowers and Carl Pickens are up there too.
 
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Boca Vol said:
About the biggest one I can think of UF-FSU to end the season. But I agree, I don't think you would see a non-instate non-conference game to end the season.

Didn't he also get UCLA to play UT in Memphis as a neutral field game? I have no idea what PSU was thinking not demanding a home and home.
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No one was thinking. Either that or they were so arrogant that they gave the thought of playing against a "southern" team two times down here. Perhaps thought they would come down and show those southern "hicks" a thing or two about real football.

The UCLA game of 1965 was the first really big non conference regular season game UT ever played against a traditional national power outside of a bowl game. Woodruff was the one who scheduled that game and started the resulting series that to this day stretches to 15 games, I believe. We played UCLA the last game of the season in 1970 in Knoxville, the year before the Penn State game. Unlike Penn State, UCLA had the good sense to make sure we came back to California and played them in 1967.

From the UCLA series came the Penn State series, then series' through the years with other powers like USC, Pitt, Syracuse, Miami, Oregon, Cal, Notre Dame, etc. .
 
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esarmstrong said:
:loco:

The whole kicking-field-goals-barefooted-over-the-clothes-line hits way too close to home with me.
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Me too. I grew up in Decherd. Franklin County has produced its share of great vols.

Trivia: How many can you name? (You may know more of them than I do.)
 
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Bobby was one of my first heroes of UT football. The first orange UT jersey that I ever got was number #44, Bobby's number. Hope he makes it into the HoF on first try.
 
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I'm originally from Knoxville, moved to Florida in 65. Bobby Majors was my hero in High School. I played corner on our team and wore number 44. I returned punts and would have kicked but didn't have the leg. Bobby was everything I wanted to be in an athlete. From what I've been told he's also a great man. When we talk about tradition at UT, Bobby Majors and players like him are what we are talking about. Here's rooting for him to make it to the Hall of Fame.
 
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pofallon said:
I'm originally from Knoxville, moved to Florida in 65. Bobby Majors was my hero in High School. I played corner on our team and wore number 44. I returned punts and would have kicked but didn't have the leg. Bobby was everything I wanted to be in an athlete. From what I've been told he's also a great man. When we talk about tradition at UT, Bobby Majors and players like him are what we are talking about. Here's rooting for him to make it to the Hall of Fame.
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Your mentioning of kicking had me thinking again about just how complete a player Bobby Majors was. Seems I recall that he punted some for UT too. You have to hand it to him for being so complete a "football player".

Edit: I just checked it myself. I recon he did punt "some". He punted for us his junior and senior seasons and averaged 37.1 yards for his career. This guy did it all.
 
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Was at that game. Thanks for bringing back some great memories. Wasn't that game on Dec. 4 of that year? We all ran onto the field at the end of the game. All the players were thanking us for supporting them. Conrad Graham gave me his chin strap. I looked at it yesterday and was sure it was forty years to the day of that memorable game.
 
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