Who else here is old enough

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VolGirl1126 said:
I'm not old enough to remember that but to this day my brothers are still mad Majors didn't win the Heisman.
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Majors what RB, QB, Kicker, Kick returner, water boy etc... for UT who went 10-1. Paul Horning was on a 2-9 Notre Dame team and played 1 position. Hell he wasn't even the best player on his team much less Heisman winner. But.....He somehow beat out Majors for the award!
 
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Kngsport VFL said:
Wow. And I thought i was old. - LOL Doug Dickey was coach when i started paying attention to the vols, about 10 years old.
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Then you should remember him throwing the Florida game and then after the game announcing he is taking over as head coach at Florida.
 
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mad4vols said:
Also I noticed the checkerboard end zone, didn’t realize we had those back then.
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There were a lot of seasons where they abandoned the checkerboards. They are here to stay I think. When I was in school, there was Tennessee on one end zone and Volunteers in the other. Artificial grass.

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Capt Straight said:
To remember listening to George Mooney and Bob Fox announcing Tennessee Football in the days prior to John Ward? My father was a UT grad, so I can remember as a little kid sitting beside a giant radio listening to Johnny Majors playing in the single wing formation. Any other old farts on this board? LOL
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I remember. I started to U.T. around the time Ward took over football.
 
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ptcarter said:
There were a lot of seasons where they abandoned the checkerboards. They are here to stay I think. When I was in school, there was Tennessee on one end zone and Volunteers in the other. Artificial grass.

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Yeah, I remember that end zone, my dad who was a physics professor at UT had season tickets. I think I was at every home game throughout the 70’s until we moved to Ohio in 1980.
 
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Capt Straight said:
To remember listening to George Mooney and Bob Fox announcing Tennessee Football in the days prior to John Ward? My father was a UT grad, so I can remember as a little kid sitting beside a giant radio listening to Johnny Majors playing in the single wing formation. Any other old farts on this board? LOL
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First year I started really playing attention was John's first or second year. And my folks still missed Lindsey Nelson. They were just starting to like John. I wonder is anyone has tapes of a Mooney & Fox called game. Just from a historical perspective, I would be interested in hearing a few sound bites. Was that radio a tabletop model, or one of those free standing cabinets? I've seen a few my grandparents had, and a few in museums. AM reception never sounded as well as FM, but some of those things looked beautiful.
 
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ptcarter said:
There were a lot of seasons where they abandoned the checkerboards. They are here to stay I think. When I was in school, there was Tennessee on one end zone and Volunteers in the other. Artificial grass.

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The check boards better be here to stay. Other than the McDonalds Golden Archs, they are the most recognizable brand in America. I’ve had people everywhere tell me they know it’s Tennessee when they see those end zones.
 
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I’m barely old enough to have lived through the national championship. Supposedly during the Nebraska bowl game the year before my dad nearly got us both killed cuz he was speeding to watch the game on TV
 
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Illinoisvolfan2 said:
I watched that game on TV and cried when Karl Kremser missed the field goal.
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OMG.. That image is burned into my brain. We "had them".. a great comeback, and I loved Kremsers "soccer style" kicking. Wasn't George Hunt the last head on kicker we had?
Yep that one hurt, and to this day I want to beat Oklahoma pretty badly.
 
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87&91ALUM said:
One of my earliest memories of UT football.

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My wife and I were offered $100 for our tickets by a PSU fan. She still reminds me I turned it down. That was a month's rent, plus utilities for us back then.

Had the good fortune to work for Mr Foxx one summer at TDOT. At lunch on a couple of rainy days he was in the mood to tell stories. Heaven for a Vol fan.
 
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ptcarter said:
OMG.. That image is burned into my brain. We "had them".. a great comeback, and I loved Kremsers "soccer style" kicking. Wasn't George Hunt the last head on kicker we had?
Yep that one hurt, and to this day I want to beat Oklahoma pretty badly.
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I was in the end zone at the Orange Bowl when Kremser attempted that field goal. My wife,brother and sister in law were watching and we all thought the field goal was good. Even fifty plus years later,I still think it was good. But number two was not supposed to beat number one.so that was that.
 
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Capt Straight said:
To remember listening to George Mooney and Bob Fox announcing Tennessee Football in the days prior to John Ward? My father was a UT grad, so I can remember as a little kid sitting beside a giant radio listening to Johnny Majors playing in the single wing formation. Any other old farts on this board? LOL
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Don't recall the Majors playing days, but I did listen to the Mooney-Fox broadcasts around 1958. Gene Etter, Mallon Faircloth, etc. Guess I'm eligible.:cool:
 
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ptcarter said:
OMG.. That image is burned into my brain. We "had them".. a great comeback, and I loved Kremsers "soccer style" kicking. Wasn't George Hunt the last head on kicker we had?
Yep that one hurt, and to this day I want to beat Oklahoma pretty badly.
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George Hunt. Wow. I remember him too. He very well may be the last straight on kicker we’ve had.
 
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I was only 5 years old when George Mooney retired in '67, but I vaguely recall his voice coming from my Dad's clock radio on Saturdays.

Here is something that I didn't know about George; he was the accidental founder of the Vol Navy. He used to take his runabout up the river to the games rather than fight the Knoxville traffic and others began following suit:

Vol Network Announcer George Mooney Dies - University of Tennessee Athletics
 
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VolGirl1126 said:
I'm not old enough to remember that but to this day my brothers are still mad Majors didn't win the Heisman.
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They should be. They gave it to a guy from Notre Dame named Paul Hornung who played on a team with a losing record.
 
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Capt Straight said:
To remember listening to George Mooney and Bob Fox announcing Tennessee Football in the days prior to John Ward? My father was a UT grad, so I can remember as a little kid sitting beside a giant radio listening to Johnny Majors playing in the single wing formation. Any other old farts on this board? LOL
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I remember as a kid listening to the 1947 Orange Bowl against Rice with my older brother. Got real interested the 1950 season when they beat Texas in Cotton Bowl. Won the national championship the next year. Remember when Neyland retired and was succeeded by Harvey Robinson who lasted one year until they hired Bowden Wyatt away from Arkansas. Back in the days of Wyatt, they had a practice day where they would actually let fans out on the field right with the players. Athletic director Bob Neyland would be out on the field shouting at the players just like the coaches. I got to attend one of those practices and can actually say I've been on the practice field next to legendary Coach Bob Neyland.
 
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