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Last Updated: 03-25-02

   
    In the South, there are few things that rival  a crisp
Spring day at Neyland Stadium.  Football is the
"Saturday Religion" of the Orange and White faithful.
Everyone knows the path to the "House along the River."
It is a place were more than 107,000 screaming,
diehard orange-blooded fans pack in to see the BEST
that college football has to offer!  It is a place that opponents
dread to play and few survive. 

    Before there were Titans, Predators, and Grizzlies, 
there was only ONE team in all the land...  The University
of Tennessee Volunteers


HISTORY of "Running the T":
   
From the time of coach Bob Neyland through the 1963 season, the Vols had their team bench on the east
side of the field, close to their dressing room which entered the field on the 50-yard line. When Doug Dickey
became Tennessee's coach in 1964, he changed all that. He moved his team bench to the west side, allowing
the Vols to enter through a giant "T" formed by the "Pride of the Southland" Marching Band. When the Vols
moved to the new dressing room quarters under the north stands in 1983, the "T" remained, forming from the
north to south instead of east to west. The "T" has occasionally been formed on the road, most notably at Liberty
Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, at Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville and at the 1986 and 1991 Sugar Bowls
in New Orleans.

   
Stay Tuned for more
Volunteer Football
Info in the Future!

I will be adding more
things as the 2002
season begins!

Thanks and

GO VOLS!

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Created by Cujo31  ©  18 December 2001