Johnny Majors, Gus Manning on 1956 Tennessee football team

[dduncan4163]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLrTUs5Q7WE[/youtube]

I could listen to Johnny talk all damn day. A living legend that could grow the best damn sideburns you'd ever see..

 

[44DivePlay]

Huh, media said "Coach Majors." Respect. Media, for all the teams it seems now, only call the coach by their first name. Not saying some coaches deserve respect and some not. Just that evolution has been weird over the last decade or so

 

[madbamahater]

At first I thought this thread was going to dicuss the last time Tennessee beat Florida. 1956.

 

[BowlBrother85]

They only allowed 88 points in 11 games. Even for the 1950's that's playing some good defense.

 

[TN Outlaw]

I watched that yest and that was one of the best press conferences in a long time IMO. I'd love to hang out with those two without the camera's rolling. I'd bet they would have some good stories.

I like when CJM was talking about his fumble that led to the bowl game loss and coach telling him to have a drink and quit feeling bad about that play and CJM said he didn't quit feeling bad cause it really bothered him...but he did have that drink tho. Lol

2 true VFL's

 

[armchair]

Majors with some great insight into some of the great Vol coaches, teams, players of the 1950s. My Dad played for Neyland and used to tell me how'd they'd sign more than 100 freshman football players every year, and the players all lived in the stadium--east wing, maybe. Many of them couldn't cut it for one reason or another, and a lot of them would leave the dorm at night: you could hear their suitcases banging along in the halls as they started their trips home. Majors talks about this a bit along with many other interesting things. A shame he didn't win the Heisman, but nobody cares much for that award anymore. I didn't realize Jim Brown was a senior at Syracuse the same year!