First Vol game you remember and your age

#53
#53
1945 and I was about 13 years old and living in Oak Ridge. Cannot remember who they played. This was the "war time" team of Coach John Barnhill who was filling in for General Neyland. They let us Boy Scouts in the game for free as I recall. I had a community friend in Roane County that was playing for UT in the line.
 
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Fall of 66.Gary Wright missed a short field goal and we lost 10-9.Alcohol prevents the earlier games that.year to be recalled.Wright's miss was.against Alabama.18 years old.
 
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jim pique said:
Fall of 66.Gary Wright missed a short field goal and we lost 10-9.Alcohol prevents the earlier games that.year to be recalled.Wright's miss was.against Alabama.18 years old.
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I think the score was 11-10. Tennessee went up 10-0 & Alabama came back & went for two with Stabler to take the lead. Vols came back down the field only to miss the fg in last secs.
 
#61
#61
First complete game I remember is 1972 Bama game. We were driving from Atlanta to Anniston Al listening to it on radio I was 8. Whole family are Bama fans. Thank god we lived in Knoxville when I was born. UT hospital baby. Grew up in Ga. Hate Al and Ga. and every other school in SEC not named Tennessee lol.
 
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1990 season I vaguely remember tying Colorado and whooping UF ass. And remember riding around in my dads car listening to a boring(so I thought at the time) 9 6 loss to Bama. 8 years old.
 
#69
#69
1977 Georgia Tech...excitement about Johnny coming home was obvious even as an 8 year old at my first game. We lost, but i remember that we scored and went for 2...i thought we'd scored another Touchdown. Good times in PP
 
#70
#70
October 5th, 2002 versus Arkansas. I was 12 years old and watched Casey Clausen throw to Jason Witten to win it in 6 OTs.
 
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Type Orange+ said:
That was a great game. We took what was essentially a pro team to the wire.

Had we not tied wiith lesser teans like UCLA and Georgia Tech, our fortunes might have
been different.
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That UCLA team won the PAC 10 and routed Iowa in the Rose Bowl. GaTech was a bowl team that season also I believe
 
#74
#74
The first real memory that sticks out in my mind was the mid fifties GA Tech game (one of many dubbed the game of the century). What makes it stand out was it being the first time UT lined up in the "T" under center. (was at the close of the first half at our own goal line) What makes it stand out was a news item in the papers the next day that stated a Tech player look up from the line of scrimmage and ask "what is this?!?" a UT lineman (center I think) answered "you're the engineers, you figure it out". However, my first memories go back much further. I could not wait for the mail to bring the "game letters" (my dad's alumni letters) that showed the plays of the saturday game from the weekend before. (they were a pictorial display of a field with all the plays shown). With this and a radio broadcast from Jackson Tn still in my mind, I saw and was at many games. Don't remember the first game I was at Neyland, it was in the early 70's. Had seen UT in person in Memphis, Birmingham and Nashville from time to time before that.
 
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