Marvin West: Bring back '67 Volunteers

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We were ranked #2 a big part of the season.

Walter Chadwick was a great back - led the SEC in touchdowns.

One of our all-time best teams.
 
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To me that's always been what Tennessee football should be. So many years have passed - with so many great players, but names like Kiner, Warren, Reynolds, Flowers, Kremser and their teammates are still somehow more memorable.
 
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It's either the first integrated UT team or the last only white team... depending on whether to include the freshmen or not. Freshmen didn't play varsity for several more years. Lester McClain was on the 1967 Freshman team.
 
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The 1967 is also the last team to play on grass before Neyland had artificial turf for about 25 years. It was the last year before John Ward was the radio play-by-play announcer too.
 
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That's a really good and logical idea. In 2010, didn't UT celebrate the 25 year anniversary of the '85 team? Why not celebrate the 50th for the 1967 team?
 
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This was my senior year. This team was the one that put UT back on the map after at least 10 years of mediocrity. We also won the SEC in basketball that year, so it was a fun time to be on campus.
 
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Went to many of those games as a HS Senior. Went to the Orange Bowl too. Kremser missed a field goal by a hair (in my opinion). That was UT Football at it's beat. Was heartbroken when FL, not a powerhouse at the time.
 
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1967. The first year I discovered college football in general and Vol football in particular. I was a kid, and our family had just moved to Oak Ridge. I sat with my dad at the kitchen table and we listened to the UCLA game that year on a small transistor radio. In your imagination it was epic. Legendary. I was emotionally devastated for days after Kremser missed the field goal by inches against Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. So many great players on that team. It was impossible not to fall in love with them.
 
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Maybe 15 years ago, I was attending an NCAA basketball tournament game in Sacramento. The Vols were playing in the tournament at that site. Two rows in front of me was Doug Dickey and his wife. At halftime I approached Dickey to thank him for the special memories of that 1967 season and the shared experience with my dad. I mentioned several players form that team, and Dickey mentioned several more. I could tell he was genuinely touched by the twinkle in his eye.
 
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Caspian said:
1967. The first year I discovered college football in general and Vol football in particular. I was a kid, and our family had just moved to Oak Ridge. I sat with my dad at the kitchen table and we listened to the UCLA game that year on a small transistor radio. In your imagination it was epic. Legendary. I was emotionally devastated for days after Kremser missed the field goal by inches against Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. So many great players on that team. It was impossible not to fall in love with them.
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Very similar experience. Dad and I listened on the back porch. With the dogs of course. Great memories.

Didn't Kremser kick bare foot?
 
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I think the barefoot guy was Ricky Townsend. Kremser was one of the first soccer style kickers. It's amazing how that was considered so odd and revolutionary at the time considering how it is so much the norm today.
 
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Volnerd said:
This was my senior year. This team was the one that put UT back on the map after at least 10 years of mediocrity. We also won the SEC in basketball that year, so it was a fun time to be on campus.
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Frank Emanuel, Bobby Petrella, and Stan Mitchell are just three players of the many on the 1965 Vols roster who might beg to differ about when UT got put back on the map. Mediocre they were not. I partied with some of those guys and I'm here to tell you, they were some tough 'sumbit**es'. "Covered up all the ground they stood on" as my dear Dad used to say.
 
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