Where were games played before Neyland?

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you know that is the reason I asked, because I was driving past that field and thinking about it.
 
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I looked and looked for this, but couldn't find anything. While the rugby field seems like the most logical answer, there was certainly other places were the games could have taken place.

I did find this randon quote from Bob Davie:

As a coach, I've been a part of teams that traveled to LSU, Florida State, Texas and almost every other place in the country that could be considered one of the toughest places to play as a visiting team. But when I was at Notre Dame, we went down to Knoxville for a night game in 1999 and the Tennessee crowd that night was the most impressive that I ever faced. The crowd absolutely took us out of the game from a communication standpoint. Neyland Stadium was just electric. I think we heard Rocky Top about 42 times. Of course, we gave them reason to play it a few times.

First of all, it is a flashy kind of a feel when you play in Knoxville, but particularly when you play there at night. Not only was there a fever pitch, but the crowd was educated. They knew that they were a factor, particularly when you were on offense and trying to change a play at the line of scrimmage. The Tennessee crowd can flat take you out of the game. If I had it to again, we would not have even check. We would work on a silent count. That's just the reality of playing there in a night game...
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Odd, it seems a big complaint on this board is that the crowd is uneducated in the art of crowd assistance. As in, we cheer when the Vols are on offense, etc.
 
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#9
well there's no question that there are some people in the crowd who are just cheering for the sake of cheering. A lot of those people are drunk and belong to fraternities or sororities. I wouldn't label the entire crowd as uneducated by any means. But I agree that there are times when one scratches one's head about exactly why we're so loud.
 
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kptvol said:
As in, we cheer when the Vols are on offense, etc.
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I remember that problem in the student section, but I don't hear this now, in other sections

Also, we had a very loud crowd, in my memory, for the Bama game, yet I recently read on here a fan that said the UT fans sat on their hands the entire game. I think some fans hear the media attention that Tiger Stadium and the Swamp get and immediately go into bash mode, claiming Neyland is silent or something. I realize the west side can be like the early service on Sunday morning, but some fans like to act like the remaining 70k UT fans too make no noise.
 
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Mullet said:
well there's no question that there are some people in the crowd who are just cheering for the sake of cheering. A lot of those people are drunk and belong to fraternities or sororities. I wouldn't label the entire crowd as uneducated by any means. But I agree that there are times when one scratches one's head about exactly why we're so loud.
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Right, because only the Greek community consumes alcohol before games.
 
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kptvol said:
Right, because only the Greek community consumes alcohol before games.
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And, of course, college Greeks that actually got accepted to UT are less educated than drunk guys with two teeth (still more than Bama!) and a coonskin cap. They really make up less than 10% of the crowd...
 
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CardassianVol said:
And, of course, college Greeks that actually got accepted to UT are less educated than drunk guys with two teeth (still more than Bama!) and a coonskin cap. They really make up less than 10% of the crowd...
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That's 2% of the student population.
 
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kptvol said:
Greeks don't make up a very large portion of the student body. I'm pretty sure it is more than that, however.
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I actually thought it was closer to 1.5%, but not totally sure.

There was an article in the Beacon a few years ago about Greeks and them owning the student government on the Hill, despite their small representation on campus, and the number was surprisingly low.
 
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The Dude said:
I actually thought it was closer to 1.5%, but not totally sure.

There was an article in the Beacon a few years ago about Greeks and them owning the student government on the Hill, despite their small representation on campus, and the number was surprisingly low.
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You could be right. I think it's low enough to where everytime you see someone an annoying young person you really can't assume it's some frat guy.
 
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Office of Fraternity Affairs at The University of Tennessee

Fraternity men represent a very small percentage, only 2% of the male population in the United State.
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This is all I could find, from the utk.edu website.

Edit: I would guess that it would be a slightly higer percentage than most national universities, but not like it is at places like Oxford, Tuscaloosa, Charleston, or Clempson.
 
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