Who remembers listening to the radio after a Vols game to Hold that Line?

[EtowahVol]

Who hosted it? Everyone looked forward to the days Slippery Rock score????

 

[orangefloyd]

Chuck Ketron for one. Tip Tipton?

 

[WillisWG]

Funny you should bring that up just last week I was reading through some articles by Tom Mattingly and came across this

‘Hold that line’ | The Knoxville Focus

Mattingly | The Knoxville Focus

 

[dphil5163]

I remember it very well. Before the Information Age took over!

 

[VAVol85]

I remember it. It was the radio version of the chyron that runs across the screen during today’s TV broadcasts. You had to have patience to be a sports fan in those days!

 

[Illinoisvolfan2]

I used to love listening to that with my dad on Saturday afternoons

 

[SuzyVol]

Wasn't there a national TV show - maybe Touchdown Corner - that showed highlights of five or six games on Monday evening? I remember seeing Princeton's Cosmo Iacavazzi on some such highlight program. That name stuck with me, although I did have to search for the correct spelling.

 

[albedo33]

As an aside, my first few years as a Vol fan were spent listening to them on the radio, George Mooney broadcasting, beginning in 1953 with UT's 33-6 win over Vandy the first game I remember. Now, the thing is, as you listened on the radio, you created what was happening in the game in your mind, from the account given by the broadcaster and nothing more.
In 1958, my uncle took my best friend & me to an actual game, a 10-0 loss to Florida State. It was a huge letdown. What I saw in reality seemed nothing more than a bunch of muscular guys pushing and knocking each other to the ground, lumbering around on the field, and the like. It was nowhere near as exciting, as dramatic, as George Mooney made it sound on the radio.
To this day, my favorite Tennessee games are the ones I listened to on the radio as a youngster - especially UT's magical season of '56, including the showdown 6-0 with over Georgia Tech. Best of all, listening to the "Rosebonnet Bowl" against UCLA in '65, in our dorm, South Stadium Hall, with other students. With the score back and forth, and Tennessee's dramatic last-second win, 37-34 (the sort of scoring unheard of in those days), it still ranks as the most exciting football game I ever heard or saw.

 

[backdoorcutvol]

One of the best radio shows was Leonard’s Losers.

 

[Savannahbayvol]

Enjoyed listening to Hold that Line driving back to Chattanooga after the game.

After Hold that Line the LSU game would come on if they were playing at home. Or UK home games in October were at nite so as not to compete with Keeneland. Great memories

 

[WillisWG]

In the 60s we lived next door to elderly man who was hard of hearing. His wife wouldn't let him turn up the radio in the house so he would drag this really big radio out onto his back porch to listen to the games. He had the volume cranked up and the whole neighborhood could hear the game. Nobody complained. A simpler world.

 

[woodpusher]

One of the best radio shows was Leonard’s Losers.

Leonard's Losers was on last season.

 

[WillisWG]

Leonard's Losers was on last season.

need the REAL Leonard