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Atkins was huge when he came to Tennessee as a basketball player. Neyland saw him in the gym one day and all of a sudden, he was on a football scholarship. The rest is history. They had a picture of Bobby Bringle chinning himself on Atkin’s outstretched arm.Published roster individuals have always bee wrong...take Doug Atkins for example. He was listed as 6'2" and 215 lbs. Actually, he was 6'8" and 265 lbs.
One day I was in the really old weight room which was a one room , maybe 30 by 30 room in the old Memorial gym. it had one bench press station and was all they had back in the 1950s. Dough Atkins and Jack Stroud walked into the room and they looked like they took up the entire space. Two of the largest men I have ever seen. Remember this wad almost over 60 years ago.