Golden Eagles capture OVC Team Sportsmanship Award in football December 16, 2015 Tennessee Tech University is the recipient of the 2015-16 Ohio Valley. Tennessee Vols Football - In our Tennessee Vols Football Forum you can discuss Tennessee Vols Football. Tennessee's football program began in 1891, organized in large part by Henry Denlinger, a teacher who had played at Princeton. The team's first game, a loss to. Get the latest Tennessee Titans news, scores, stats, standings, rumors, and more from ESPN. The Tennessee Official Athletic Site, partner of CBSi Advanced Media. The most comprehensive coverage of Tennessee Athletics on the web. The latest Tennessee Volunteers Football rankings, news, scores, live coverage, predictions, picks against the spread, recruiting updates and more. Get the latest Tennessee Volunteers news, scores, stats, standings, rumors, and more from ESPN. Tennessee Tech/video/2. Video/Above_the_net_Thumb. Video/highlightsthumb. Video/Above_the_net_Thumb. Video/FB_at_EKU_thumb. Video/Above_the_net_Thumb. Video/UTM- TTU_Thumb. Video/Above_the_net_Thumb. Video/Above_the_net_Thumb. Video/Presser_Thumb_F. Video/TTUVSMERCER. Video/Above_the_net_Thumb. Video/soccer- rad_thumb. Tennessee Volunteers football - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tennessee Volunteers football. First season. 18. Athletic director. Dave Hart. Head coach. Butch Jones. 3rd year, 2. Other staff. Mike De. Bord (OC)John Jancek (DC)Home stadium. Neyland Stadium. Stadium capacity. Largest crowd: 1. Sept. 1. 8, 2. 00. UF)Stadium surface. Grass. Location. Knoxville, Tennessee. Conference. SEC (1. Division. SEC Eastern Division (1. All- time record. Postseason bowl record. Playoff appearances. Claimed national titles. Unclaimed national titles. Conference titles. SEC, 3 Southern)Heisman winners. Consensus All- Americans. Colors. UT Orange and White Fight song. Down the Field (Official)Rocky Top (Unofficial)Mascot. Smokey XMarching band. Pride of the Southland Band. Outfitter. Nike. Primary Rivals. Alabama Crimson Tide. Florida Gators. Vanderbilt Commodores. Website. UTSports. The Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously called "Tennessee", "Vols", or "UT") represents the University of Tennessee (UT) in the sport of American football. The Volunteers compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Having played their first season in 1. Vols have played football for well over a century, with their combined record of 8. SEC programs.[3] Their all- time ranking in bowl appearances is third (4. Sugar Bowls, three Cotton Bowls, an Orange Bowl, and a Fiesta Bowl. They have won 1. 3 conference championships and six national titles in their history and their last national championship was in the 1. The Vols play at Neyland Stadium, where Tennessee has an all- time winning record of 4. Additionally, its 1. Neyland the nation's fifth largest stadium. The team is currently coached by Butch Jones. History[edit]Early years (1. Mid- 1. 89. 0s yearbook sketch of a UT football player by artist Catherine Wiley. Tennessee's football program began in 1. Henry Denlinger, a teacher who had played at Princeton. The team's first game, a loss to Sewanee, was played on November 2. The program's first win did not come until October 2. Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee, by a score of 2. Tennessee competed in their first 5 seasons without a coach. In 1. 89. 9, J. A. Pierce became the first head coach of the team. Author Nash Buckingham was a prominent athlete in 1. The 1. 90. 2 team also featured halfback Tootsie Douglas, who booted a 1. John Heisman's Clemson Tigers. Douglas went on to play for Navy where in 1. Walter Camp's third- team All- America. All- Southern fullback Sam Y. Parker of the 1. 90. Nathan Dougherty with nose guard. The 1. 90. 8 team coached by George Levene was considered the best Tennessee football yet assembled,[5] led by All- Southernscaptain. Walker Leach and College Football Hall of Fame inductee Nathan Dougherty. Its four wins was the most in school history. Vanderbilt coach Dan Mc. Gugin noted "All things considered, Leach was perhaps the best football player of the year in Dixie."[6]Z. G. Clevenger[edit]The team had several coaches with short tenures until Zora G. Clevenger took over in 1. In 1. 91. 4, Clevenger led the Vols to a dominant 9- 0 season and their first championship of any kind (even state titles), winning the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association title. The team included All- Southerns end Goat Carroll, tackle Farmer Kelly, guard Mush Kerr and fullback Rus Lindsay. The Vols would again field an undefeated squad in 1. John R. Bender,but consistency was still elusive. A second, unblemished SIAA championship in three years was relegated to a tie with Georgia Tech when Kentucky held Tennessee to a scoreless tie in the final week of play. End Graham Vowell was a unanimous All- Southern selection. In 1. 92. 1, Shields- Watkins Field, the core of modern Neyland Stadium, was built.[7][8] The new home of the Vols was named after William S. Shields and his wife Alice Watkins Shields, the financial backers of the field. The field used bleachers that could seat 3,2. The inaugural game at Shields- Watkins field was played on September 2. Tennessee victory over Emory and Henry College.[8]In 1. Roe Campbell was a prominent Volunteer. In 1. 92. 4 and 1. J. G. Lowe was the last Vol football player to serve as captain two years in a row until 2. Neyland comes to UT (1. Robert Neyland took over as head coach in 1. At the time, Neyland was a captain in the United States Army and an ROTC instructor at the school. Interestingly, in the 1. ROTC instructors) out- ranked him. Former player Nathan Dougherty, who had then become dean of the school's engineering program and chairman of athletics, stated the priority: "Even the score with Vanderbilt," referring to the Nashville school which had been dominating football in the state. Neyland lost to Vanderbilt in his first season, but either won or tied Vanderbilt in his next seven seasons. Neyland captured the school's first Southern Conference title in 1. Alabama in 1. 92. In 1. 92. 9, Gene Mc. Ever became the football program's first ever All- American. He led the nation in scoring, and his 1. Dodd at Tennessee depicted on a trading card in the 1. Longtime Georgia Tech football coach Bobby Dodd twice earned All- Southern team honors when he played Quarterback for Tennessee during this time frame. Dodd led Tennessee to back- to- back unbeaten seasons with identical 9- 0- 1 records his sophomore and junior years in 1. During Dodd's era, the Vols went 3. Alabama in 1. 93. UT history. After the loss, Dodd and his teammates helped kick off another unbeaten streak lasting 2. Dodd was named to Grantland Rice's All- American team in 1. Tennessee, following Gene Mc. Ever, who led the nation in scoring in 1. Mc. Ever missed the entire 1. His prior sidekick at halfback Buddy Hackman filled the void and made All- Southern. In 1. 95. 9, Dodd was named to the University of Tennessee's Hall of Fame and to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player.[1. He was elected in the same year as teammate Herman Hickman.)In the 1. Tennessee saw many more firsts. They played in the New York City Charity Game on December 5, 1. Led by Herman Hickman, they scored a 1. New York University. Hickman's performance caught the eye of sportswriter Grantland Rice, who added Hickman to his All American team, and he would later play professionally for the Brooklyn Dodgers. After the 1. 93. 2 season, Tennessee joined the newly formed Southeastern Conference, setting the stage for decades of new and now storied rivalries with such teams like Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt. Captain Neyland led the Vols to a 7. After the 1. 93. 4 season, Neyland was called into military service in Panama. Neyland's first stint with UT saw the Vols rattle off undefeated streaks of 3. Neyland returns, John Barnhill, and World War II (1. Tennessee struggled to a losing record during Neyland's time in Panama. He returned to find a rebuilding project in 1. In 1. 93. 6 and 1. Vols won six games each season. However, in 1. 93. Neyland's Vols began one of the more impressive streaks in NCAA football history. Led by the likes of Tennessee's only three time All- American Bob Suffridge, the 1. Tennessee Volunteers football team won the school's first National Championship and earned a trip to the Orange Bowl, the team's first major bowl, where they pounded fellow unbeaten Oklahoma by a score of 1. They outscored their opponents 2. The 1. 93. 9 regular season was even more impressive. The 1. 93. 9 team was the last NCAA team ever to hold their opponents scoreless for an entire regular season. Surprisingly, the Vols did not earn a national title that year despite being ranked #1 for most of the season, but did earn a trip to the famed Rose Bowl. The Vols were without the services of tailback George Cafego, who would finish fourth in the Heisman voting and be the top pick in the NFL draft, due to a knee injury. Cafego's backup was also injured. For a single- wing squad heavily dependent upon the tailback position, it proved to be too much for the Vols to overcome. In front of a crowd of over 9. Tennessee fell by a score of 1. Southern California. That loss ended UT's streak of 1. NCAA records to this day. The 1. 94. 0 Vols put together a third consecutive undefeated regular season (Neyland's eighth such season with the Vols). That team earned a national title from two minor polls, and received the school's first bid to the Sugar Bowl, where they lost to Boston College. After the 1. 94. 0 season, Neyland was again pressed into military service, this time for World War II. His successor, John Barnhill, did well in his absence, going 3. The Vols did not field a team in 1. Neyland's final return (1. After World War II, Neyland retired from the military with the rank of brigadier general, and returned to Knoxville. From 1. 94. 6 to 1. Neyland's Vols had a record of 5. They won conference titles in 1. The 1. 95. 0 season included what would prove to be the highest profile matchup between the South's two biggest coaching legends: General Neyland and Paul "Bear" Bryant, then at Kentucky. Both teams were ranked in the top ten. The Vols defeated Bryant, Kentucky star quarterback Babe Parilli, and the Wildcats, 7- 0. Bryant would never win a game against Neyland. The 1. 95. 0 season culminated with a win against #2 Texas in Dallas at the Cotton Bowl Classic. The 1. 95. 1 team featured Hank Lauricella, that season's Heisman Trophy runner up, and Doug Atkins, a future college football and Pro Football Hall of Fame performer. The Vols romped to a 1. Neyland's ninth undefeated regular season) and the AP National Title. Neyland retired due to poor health in 1. Vols to an 8- 2- 1 record, and took the position of athletic director. His final game was the 1. Cotton Bowl against Texas, where Tennessee was shut out 1. The Vols would see spotty success for some 4. Tennessee program had similar winning percentages. Robinson, Wyatt, and Mc. Donald (1. 95. 3–1. Harvey Robinson had the tough task of replacing General Neyland, and only stuck around for two seasons.
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