Most impactful play you witnessed at Neyland

[volfan2024]

Clint Stoerner fumble against My Vols championship season and being one of about 2/3 fans that never gave up and same year Jeff Hall field goal against Gators. Pretty impactful.

 

[Brave Volunteer]

Clint Stoerner fumble and nothing else even comes close. Loudest I've ever heard Neyland.

 

[Jauan't Some?]

Maybe not super impactful from the perspective of the outcome of the particular game or even that particular season, but Austin Pope punching the ball out of his own hands on what should have been a walk-in touchdown versus Florida in 2018 feels like a microcosm of the Pruitt era in hindsight.

 

[savannahfan]

Freshman H. Walker running over Bill Bates. Neyland went quiet for a moment.

 

[Doberman]

Stoerner Stumble.

JJ’s juggling, tip toe catch after burning J. Tabor.

 

[ru4real-really?]

Reigning National Champion LSU's Heisman winner Billy Cannon was trying to make a two-point conversion late in the game to get a win over the lackluster Vol's in 1959. The three Vol's who stopped him got that memory forever imbedded with a Sports Illustrated Cover that week. I was standing in the student section on the aisle entry midway up where it says VOLS on the fifty-yard line! There might be more meaningful plays in Vol history, but I didn't see them!

 

[ru4real-really?]

Freshman H. Walker running over Bill Bates. Neyland went quiet for a moment.

I too was there that night in September 1980. Sat in the north end zone bleachers. (the last year for them) I remember it well. Now he's going to be a Senator--maybe!

 

[Mccage]

There's been several but one comes to mind that's had an impact on several lives. The 2006 Tenn/Air force game when ole Inky got hurt.

 

[Mccage]

I too was there that night in September 1980. Sat in the north end zone bleachers. (the last year for them) I remember it well. Now he's going to be a Senator--maybe!

I was there too but Glenn Ford fumbling on the 2 yd line had a bigger impact.

 

[HarderKnox59]

Peyton's goal line bootleg against Bama in 95. Most definitely a in your face moment. But that game did have several.

 

[VOLS INC.]

Pig Howard


Still haunts me.

 

[99gator]

I'm not a Vol fan, but it has to be the Stoerner fumble and nothing else would be close. So, acknowledging that I will mention another play because no one else usually does.

In the 98 game against Florida, during the overtime on 3rd down Florida's D had Tee Martin dead and buried and he somehow escaped and scrambled for enough yardage to get back into field goal range. If he doesn't pull a Houdini, the overtime may be completely different.

 

[EricStratton]

Hershel Walker running from the north end zone to the south end zone at the kick off.

 

[ThreatLevelOrange]

Inky Johnson’s injury. It was an exciting game that got incredibly quiet really fast.

 

[jonnon111]

JJs tiptoe catch against UF. No question

 

[Capt Whiskey]

James Wilhoit redeeming himself with the game winner 2004 UF.

 

[onevol74]

Peyton's goal line bootleg against Bama in 95. Most definitely a in your face moment. But that game did have several.

That was in Legion Field in Birmingham.

 

[onevol74]

The interception on Bama’s last drive of the 1982 game that sealed the victory for one of the loudest games in Neyland.

 

[K87vol]

I was there for Stoerner fumble, but I think one of the coolest for me was in 1990 vs florida when Dale Carter returned the 2nd
have opening kickoff for a touchdown that blew a tight game wide open and the rout was on. The kick was going about of bounds
when he grabbed it.

 

[VolArmy74]

Stoener's fumble is really the only answer to those of us who were around 24 years ago and attending games. Before that moment for me it was Mike Terry intercepting Walter Lewis in the end zone to wrap the win over Bama in 1982 with the Jeff Hall FG coming in in 3rd place.

 

[MAD]

what year was that Florida td catch that wasn’t a catch?

 

[VolArmy74]

what year was that Florida td catch that wasn’t a catch?

2000. We ran all over Florida all day at will and still managed to lose that one on that garbage call.

 

[MAD]

But ones I witnessed live, the two point conversion over Clemson in 74 and The Bama interception in 82.

 

[mtvols]

I was there for Stoerner fumble, but I think one of the coolest for me was in 1990 vs florida when Dale Carter returned the 2nd
have opening kickoff for a touchdown that blew a tight game wide open and the rout was on. The kick was going about of bounds
when he grabbed it.

This play was the first that came to my mind when I read the question.

 

[CINCYVOL]

The interception on Bama’s last drive of the 1982 game that sealed the victory for one of the loudest games in Neyland.

I was there with my Dad, I had just turned 14. First time I drank Jack Daniels. We stayed in our seats for about an hour. Saw guys carrying goal post down Cumberland Ave. which the police had blocked off due to the massive street party.