Question about very old UT game

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I have been informed that in a UT-UGa played in Knoxville about 1899, a spectator walked out onto the field late in the game and just sort of announced that the game was over. According to the version I was told, this man had a gun and it took him a while to be persuaded to leave the field and let the game continue.

Has anyone else ever head anything like that? Did I just dream it up? Obviously the whole concept of "stadium security" hadn't quite come into vogue in those days, so it seems barely possible.

Just wondering if anybody can confirm or deny, and maybe add in some details.

GO VOLS!!
 
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I have Russ Bebb's 1974 Book, The Big Orange in my dorm room, and I will check it later tonight. It has been a while since I have read the book, yet the story does sound familiar.
 
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I know we beat Georgia 5-0 in 1899 and that we played on gravel instead of grass. It was the first year we had a head coach.
 
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A week before they played us, UGA played Auburn. Auburn had an 11-6 lead with 30 seconds left when the referee called the game due to darkness and crowd interference. It went into the books as no contest.

the next week UGA played UT. This is from The Big Orange by Russ Bebb:
The Georgia team played in Knoxville that season, lost 5-0 as the referee allowed the game to be played to a conclusion, and the Tennessee victory set off a wild celebration complete with gunfire.
"The cannons were rolled from their sheds and fired 16 times in honor of Tennessee" the Sentinel reported. "Then the rattle of musketry commenced, lasting for an hour, after which the women students sang songs of victory.
" A huge bonfire was started, which burned throughout the night. Around this the University of Tennessee boys gathered, giving the football yells, and singing 'Marching Through Georgia'."
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Thanks bloodrunneth, I was forgot I was going to the Lady Vol game when I posted that I would look it up.

By the way, tonight's game against South Carolina gets my vote for most BORING Lady Vol game of all-time. Other than the Wheaties Box ceremony for Pat, it was the most missable game in Lady Vol history.
 
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Could you imagine if the Pride of the Southland Band played that after a UT-delivered whoopin' down in Athens? Might damn near start a riot ... that is if anybody recognized the tune.
 
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VolNTX said:
But some people "aknowledge" that it might should be fought again......
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Did you really just make fun of his spelling error and then use the phrase "it might should" in the same sentence? Awesome!

That song has some offensive lyrics. I think it might should be left in the past as well.
 
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