Neyland Stadium Throwback

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rockytopdevil said:
If I'm not mistaken, wasn't orange clothing hard to come up with back in those days?
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I grew up in the 1960s and stuff was hard to come by. There was the usual Bill Dance hat but that was pretty much it. Heck, when I went to UT in the fall of 1974, there still wasn't a lot.

It wasn't until UT fired Bill Battle that clothing, etc. with college colors, logos started taking off because he started Collegiate Licensing after he got out of coaching. The man made a couple of bucks off that.
 
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triad280 said:
the Blue hairs were yelling at them even back then... and turn down that damn Glenn Miller and Count Basie
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Remember playing hoops in that building in the background in the 80s. Hard courts on the 2nd or third floor. Went to UTC, but friends on Knox campus.
 
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Looks like late 50's/early 60's based on the cars in the background.
 
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OuterBanksVol said:
I like the permanent scoreboard reference to "VISITORS", but disappointed that so many fans have left when there's still lots of time left in the 4th quarter.
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there's 1 minute left and it's the other team's ball on their own 4 yard line and we're up 22-6...
 
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really pisses me off that even back then everyone couldn't stop checking their iphones
 
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rynrem said:
Looks like a lot of white...maybe they were in a uniform of some type
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At that time, men wore suits and ties with fedoras to the games and women wore their nice dresses. If it were late summer, men might just wear their white shirts but still with the ties.

Gen. Neyland always wore a suit at games. John Majors carried on the tradition until very late in his tenure on the Hill.

Classier people in a classier time.

Majors, Fulmer and Cutcliff at Majors' last game vs Vanderbilt in 1992. (Knoxville News-Sentinel)
 

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OneManGang said:
At that time, men wore suits and ties with fedoras to the games and women wore their nice dresses. If it were late summer, men might just wear their white shirts but still with the ties.

Gen. Neyland always wore a suit at games. John Majors carried on the tradition until very late in his tenure on the Hill.

Classier people in a classier time.

Majors, Fulmer and Cutcliff at Majors' last game vs Vanderbilt in 1992. (Knoxville News-Sentinel)
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And Randy Sanders....would like to erase him from that pic.
 
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jim pique said:
I started school in the fall of 66,Reese hall and the courtyard were brand new and the north end of Neyland looked similar.The main difference was beside the flagpole was a large(30-40)feet.When it would rain,you could slide down it.Also, there was a cannon beside the UT,that would be fired by the rotc guys whenever Tennessee scored.
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We probably had classes together on the hill. There was block seating for fraternities on the East side and it was raucous to be in that group. We played Alabama that Fall and lost by one point at the last second during a pouring rainfall. Ah! Sweet memories.
 
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jfite9 said:
And Randy Sanders....would like to erase him from that pic.
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I left Sanders off because the others either were (Majors) or later became (Fulmer and Cutcliff) Head Coaches themselves. Randy hasn't made that yet.

Sanders does own 2 National Championship Rings one each from UT (1998)and FSU (2013).

Of the players, #1 is Ronald Davis, #14 is QB Jerry Colquitt, off to the right is #74 Jeff Smith and the guy with the "*6" is very likely Jason Layman.

UT actually has a collection of old game programs available online. The Tennessee Football Programs: Digital Collection

Helluva trip down Memory Lane.
 
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OneManGang said:
I left Sanders off because the others either were (Majors) or later became (Fulmer and Cutcliff) Head Coaches themselves. Randy hasn't made that yet.

Sanders does own 2 National Championship Rings one each from UT (1998)and FSU (2013).

Of the players, #1 is Ronald Davis, #14 is QB Jerry Colquitt, off to the right is #74 Jeff Smith and the guy with the "*6" is very likely Jason Layman.

UT actually has a collection of old game programs available online. The Tennessee Football Programs: Digital Collection

Helluva trip down Memory Lane.
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Ronald Davis from Bartlett was a speedster..I believe he enjoyed the ganja too much.. Can't remember
 
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my extensive experience as a CIA analyst leads me to believe the car behind the flag pole is a 40's two door coupe, the next car in front is a 55 Ford, and then its either a Ford sedan or possibly an Edsel, and in front of those is a 1953-54 Pontiac. That is all I am at liberty to divulge at this time.
 
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I also remember that on one Monday after a home game,the Daily Beacon had a picture of two rows of the student section E. Ther in all our vol glory were over260 pint and half pint bottles,all empty(waste not us).The bama game you recall was 10-9 with Gary Wright missing a thirty yard field goal in the last minute.I stil have an orange UT tearaway jersey belonging to Tom Calloway from 68. I had been on the track team in 66-67.I'll die what I always have been...a Vol!
 
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Looked like that when I was there in 1976 except the flag pole was higher on the Hill and taller. We would get stoked up and swing from the flag pole, like Spider Man, at 4 in the mourning as a break from the long hours in our Architectural design lab in the Alumni Gym. We were really, really bad. LOL. You know who you are.
 
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OneManGang said:
I left Sanders off because the others either were (Majors) or later became (Fulmer and Cutcliff) Head Coaches themselves. Randy hasn't made that yet.

Sanders does own 2 National Championship Rings one each from UT (1998)and FSU (2013).

Of the players, #1 is Ronald Davis, #14 is QB Jerry Colquitt, off to the right is #74 Jeff Smith and the guy with the "*6" is very likely Jason Layman.

UT actually has a collection of old game programs available online. The Tennessee Football Programs: Digital Collection

Helluva trip down Memory Lane.
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Thanks for the info and link ! off to check out some old programs:hi:
 
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I knew the guys who worked at Eddies Package Store at 20th and Cumberland.On home games,they set two or three folding tables out front,you told them what you wanted, they brought it you paid went to the game and drank and yelled.They said on a good Saturday that they woul sellaround 40,000 and up pints and half pints.I was always good for two pints-one to be emptied by the national anthem,the second by halftime. made for a good stroll to the strip for evening festivities.
 
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I would love to have a vintage picture thread on here as almost a reference to the past. I'll agree with the poster above, this was a much classier time.
 
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