The Official Countdown To Tennessee Football 2026 (Sat. Sept 5th Furman) (119 Days)

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156 Days!
Bob Foxx
1940
Halfback
Knoxville

Bobb Foxx manned the backfield during Robert R. Neyland's second stint as coach of the Vols and earned All-America status his senior year of 1940.

Foxx earned three letters at Tennessee and was part of three consecutive SEC championship teams from 1938-40. The Vols were crowned national champion in 1938 and 1940.

Throughout Foxx's three-year career, he led the rushing attack that allowed the Vols to go unbeaten and untied in each regular season. The 1938 season was the year in which Tennessee held its opponents scoreless during the regular season. Foxx was voted Knoxville's greatest athlete of the first half-century by the Knoxville Journal readers.

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Dick Huffman played right tackle on the 1942 Vols before World War II interrupted his college career. He returned to Tennessee in 1946 and earned All-America honors following the four-year break from football.

With Huffman on the line, the Vols made a full return to prominence in the South, winning the 1946 SEC championship behind a 9-2 record. Huffman and the defensive line held five opponents to seven points or less, collecting two shutouts in the closing years of the two-way player. Huffman was one of only two players to earn All-America honors in six seasons following World War II.
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I'm gonna go ahead and knock out Saturday and Sunday

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Manning the offensive and defensive lines after World War II was Bob Dobelstein at right guard, earning All-America honors as a junior in 1944. It was also the year he served as captain of the team, the only junior in UT history to do so until the 2003 season.

Tennessee did not field a team in 1943 because of World War II. However, Dobelstein helped lead the Vols to a 7-1-1 record in 1944, completing an unbeaten regular season before losing to Southern California in the Rose Bowl. Tennessee went 8-1 the following year to set the table for an SEC title run in 1945.

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153 Days!

Hank Lauricella was "Mr. Everything" during one of the most prominent stretches in UT football history. While the 1948 recruits have been called the best freshman class in Vol history, Lauricella proved as much three years later. In the 1951 Cotton Bowl against Texas, Lauricella set up Tennessee's first score with a 75-yard run - perhaps the most memorable run in school history. The next season he was named All-SEC and All-America, averaging a school-record 7.9 yards per carry in leading the Vols to a 10-0 regular season. Tennessee was named national champion prior to its Sugar Bowl appearance, and Lauricella finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting.

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152 Days!
Johnnie Jones burst onto the scene with a 234-yard performance against Rutgers in 1983. That effort shattered Stanley Morgan’s long-standing record of 201 rushing yards set against Hawaii in 1975. Later that same season, Jones would top even his own mark, piling up 248 yards against Vanderbilt.

In the 1984 season opener versus Washington State, he added another standout game with 203 rushing yards. Remarkably, Jones remains the only Tennessee Volunteers running back to record three 200-yard rushing games.

His achievements earned him All-SEC honors in 1983 and 1984, along with Second Team All-America recognition in 1984. Between 1981 and 1984, Jones set numerous school rushing records and still stands among the greatest running backs in Tennessee football history.

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143 Days!
Journalism students traded their notebooks and recorders for shoulder pads and helmets when The Daily Beacon played The Daily Texan in the “Typewriter Bowl” in Dallas ahead of Tennessee’s game vs. Texas in the Cotton Bowl in 1969.

The game was played at a field in Dallas on New Year’s Eve, the day before the No. 8 Vols played the No. 5 Longhorns in the Cotton Bowl.

The winner received a typewriter.

The teams were made up of writers from both respective student newspapers, donning practice uniforms and equipment from the Tennessee and Texas football teams.

The Daily Texan scored in the first quarter and held that lead until the late fourth when the Daily Beacon mounted its comeback—a touchdown to finish a 6-6 tie.

The Beacon took the typewriter back to Knoxville on a coin toss.

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143 Days!
Journalism students traded their notebooks and recorders for shoulder pads and helmets when The Daily Beacon played The Daily Texan in the “Typewriter Bowl” in Dallas ahead of Tennessee’s game vs. Texas in the Cotton Bowl in 1969.

The game was played at a field in Dallas on New Year’s Eve, the day before the No. 8 Vols played the No. 5 Longhorns in the Cotton Bowl.

The winner received a typewriter.

The teams were made up of writers from both respective student newspapers, donning practice uniforms and equipment from the Tennessee and Texas football teams.

The Daily Texan scored in the first quarter and held that lead until the late fourth when the Daily Beacon mounted its comeback—a touchdown to finish a 6-6 tie.

The Beacon took the typewriter back to Knoxville on a coin toss.

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That's pretty cool and not something you will not see in today's age.
 
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142 Days!

Tennessee guard Phillip Fulmer and fullback Curt Watson celebrate during the Vols’ 21-7 win over Kentucky at McLean Stadium.

Thanks in part to Fulmer’s efforts up front, Watson rushed for 152 yards and one touchdown.

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One reason as a coach Fulmer fielded so many great running teams - he lived, knew, and understood what it took up front to be successful running the ball.
 
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You know the drill, Friday- Sunday starting now

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Tennessee tailback Walter Chadwick leaps over the Georgia Tech defense for a touchdown in the Vols’ 24-13 win over the Yellow Jackets at Neyland Stadium in 1967.

Chadwick scored an SEC-best 11 touchdowns that season.

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Tennessee’s spring game drew some attention from SEC assistant coaches in 1961.

A few of the names on hand at Neyland Stadium were Mississippi State’s John Majors and Ken Donahue, Alabama’s Howard Schnellenberger and Auburn’s Vince Dooley.

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