When was your first UT football game?

#151
#151
1977 Season Opener and Coach Johnny Majors' debut as the new head football coach. I was 13. Opponent was Cal. We started Jimmie Streater at QB and rotated Pat Ryan (who later played for the Jets). Streater was from Sylva, NC and was a lightning-fast QB that could run or throw well. He passed away a couple of years ago from complications arising from diabetes. Another good player on that team was Tailback Kelsay Finch. For a kid from middle Tennessee, Neyland Stadium was simply the largest, most beautiful site I'd ever seen. It was a horseshoe then with bleachers in the north end-zone at the foot of the Hill. We lost the game but I became a Vol fan that night.
 
#152
#152
My first game was the Alabama game of 1986. We had not won a game all year . My next game was when we beat Auburn and Pat Dye. Carl Pickens showed out that day.
 
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smokeytennessee said:
My first game was the Alabama game of 1986. We had not won a game all year . My next game was when we beat Auburn and Pat Dye. Carl Pickens showed out that day.
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I went to the next game in Memphis...Reggie Cobb had a good game and we beat the Tigers for our first win.
 
#155
#155
My first game was early 80's sometime against Ole Miss. They were collecting money for a Ole Miss. RB that was pretty good from what my dad told me but broke his neck in another game and was paralized from neck down. Anybody remember who that was?
 
#156
#156
October 10, 1992

We lost to Arkansas 25-24. I recall us having the ball with a chance to win but I guess Shuler/Garner couldn't get it done. It seems like Arkansas got the lead with a punt return or something like that. Talley was terrorizing them, so he became my favorite player. I was 10. 17 years ago. Wow.
 
#157
#157
Vanderbilt game 1965. Vandy wore yellow jerseys and gold helmets and UT wore orange with white helmets. A sight for sore eyes. Cheap tickets in the old Section X.
 
#158
#158
First time in the stadium during a game was Hawaii, 10/28/72. I had just turned 6 and my oldest sister was a student. We didn't plan to go to the game, but at some point she needed to find someone who was there, so we walked over. Went into the stadium on the west side, but stayed in the corridors as we walked around the south end to probably section E or so. Kept getting glimpses of the crowd and the field through the tunnels, heard the sounds. Finally got to come out to the stands in the student section, and have been in love ever since.

First full game I remember was Clemson the next year. Those that remember that game know why Larry Seivers was always my favorite player growing up.
 
#161
#161
My first game was the Wake Forest game in '85. My brother was a student and I was 14. I got in on one of his friend's student ID. Good times... The game was way too close considering we had just handled #1 Auburn the game before.
 
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#162
1965 season opener vs. Army. Tennessee won 21-0, which was a big surprise to everyone after we went 4-5-1 the year before. Big play I remember was a punt run back for a TD, can't remember the player.

The most memorable game that year was Georgia Tech, who we upset 21-7. I still get goosebumps hearing the entire stadium (except Tech's section) hiss as the Ramblin' Wreck led Tech's team on the field.
 
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slobberknocker said:
TN/BAMA 1966. Saw Kenny Stabler bring the damn tide back from 10-0 to beat us 11-10. Saddest I've ever been after a bama game, we drive to the tide 3 but miss the field goal as time expires. I forget the TN kicker's name but I'm sure he'll never forget. BUCK FAMA!
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My first Alabama game. We outplayed them and led 10-0 at halftime. Stadiums all over the country went crazy when the halftime score was announced. Rained the entire game.

We lost the game IMO when Coach Dickey went conservative and ran the ball in the 2nd half. Stabler led them back to go up 11-10.

Dewey Warren threw a miracle pass to Charley Fulton IIRC down to about the 3 yd line and out of bounds with only a few seconds left. FG was attempted from the right hashmark & kicker had very little to work with, so I don't blame him for the loss. FG miss gave Bama the win.

I wonder what would have happened if we could have taken a delay of game penalty & kicked from 5 yds farther back?
 
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#165
#165
November 25, 1972 UT beat Kentucky 17-7

The win earned UT a trip to the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl.

My older brother had tickets, but his girlfriend had to work that Saturday. We were about 45 rows up on the 40 yard line, East side. I was 13 at the time.
 
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#166
#166
My first was against La-Monroe on Sept. 23 2000.

We won the game 70-3...They said it was the most points UT has scored in the modern era.

In that game Casey Clausen threw his first pass as a Vol and it was a TD. I forget who it was too....Very crazy game though.

I think it was the last time we scored over 55 points...
 
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Billy Antrim said:
My first Alabama game. We outplayed them and led 10-0 at halftime. Stadiums all over the country went crazy when the halftime score was announced. Rained the entire game.

We lost the game IMO when Coach Dickey went conservative and ran the ball in the 2nd half. Stabler led them back to go up 11-10.

Dewey Warren threw a miracle pass to Charley Fulton IIRC down to about the 3 yd line and out of bounds with only a few seconds left. FG was attempted from the right hashmark & kicker had very little to work with, so I don't blame him for the loss. FG miss gave Bama the win.

I wonder what would have happened if we could have taken a delay of game penalty & kicked from 5 yds farther back?
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It was raining so hard during the game I heard a guy behind me ask his friend how big 40 cubits was.
 
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#168
1989 loss to Alabama.

If I remember correctly, Webb was suspended for that game.
 
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VOLnMiami said:
The 1973 Vanderbilt game in Neyland...Was amazing, I still remember UT running the old wishbone offense back then and UT won 20-17...We sat in the north end zone bleachers which back then were wooden and if you were not careful you could get a splinter in your butt...Great memories
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We might have been sitting next to each other. That was also my first game, we had moved to Tennessee a few months earlier and I had never been to a college game ever. I had watched Tennessee play a couple of games on TV, mainly because my dad was a UT alum and he made me! What I remember most about that game was how hot it seemed, early December and sitting in the sun for a few hours gave me a sunburn on my face. Good memories about that game, the first of probably a hundred or so since.
 
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AllOrangeInGA said:
My first game was early 80's sometime against Ole Miss. They were collecting money for a Ole Miss. RB that was pretty good from what my dad told me but broke his neck in another game and was paralized from neck down. Anybody remember who that was?
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Chuckie Mullins was paralyzed after delivering a hit on a Vandy WR. Sadly he passed away a few years back. I can't recall the Vandy players name, but i know they became good friends and he regularly visits the gravesite.
 
#171
#171
93 against louisville I remember Heath Shuler tucking the ball, running, and diving in taking a hit at the goal line right in front of me for the score.
 
#172
#172
My first one was the '86 Army game. All I remember was UT losing and thinking the band's intercrossed UT was designed to look like a trophy. I was 4.
 
#173
#173
1972...I was 2!

Ole Miss game.

BTW....most memorable game was either Oregon State in 1978 (13-13 tie in monsoon...thank goodness for Jimmy Streeter) or Alabama in 1982!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
#175
#175
06 Cal game, sat beside 4 Cal students, they were talking insane amounts of smack before the game started, well, that quickly subsided..haha
 
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