Who else here is old enough

[Capt Straight]

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

 

[jsc1973]

And here I thought I was dating myself when I made a post comparing this season to 1981!

 

[VolGirl1126]

I'm not old enough to remember that but to this day my brothers are still mad Majors didn't win the Heisman.

 

[FLVOL_79]

What was it like storming the beaches of Normandy?

 

[DC_Vol]

And here I thought I was dating myself when I made a post comparing this season to 1981!

I believe Clemson won the National Championship that year.

 

[wmcovol]

We’d have ole George on the radio outside while we were playing in the yard.

 

[MAD]

 

[JOEY'S ALL VOL !!!]

Any of you old enough to remember who the first play by play broadcaster for the Vol Network was !

Lindsey Nelson

 

[i2amavol]

My first memory is late '60's, playing in the yard, and listening to John Ward. Doug Dickey was the head coach. Some people weren't real happy when he went to Florida.

The next coach (Bill Battle) was a good guy, but Butch Jones bad, at recruiting and/or development.

 

[rockingchairvol]

Sitting in our little stadium on a Saturday afternoon watching Johnny and company win for the Big Orange..can still feel my aching feet from the high heels we wore to the games...

 

[jsc1973]

I believe Clemson won the National Championship that year.

They did indeed. Clemson went 12-0 and was named national champion as the nation's only unbeaten team.

It was also a year where UT bounced back from a horrendous start (losing 44-0 to UGA, 43-7 to USC and barely beating a 1-10 Georgia Tech team and a 1-AA Wichita State team), started playing better and was actually respectable against Bama, and ended the year with eight wins after beating a Big Ten team in a bowl.

 

[Volle]

Wasn’t Mooney’s last broadcast the 1967 season bowl game in the Orange bowl against OU?

 

[Capt Straight]

I'm not old enough to remember that but to this day my brothers are still mad Majors didn't win the Heisman.

 

[Capt Straight]

Yes, it was almost as bad as Woodson winning it over Manning. Peyton would have won it were it being presented today.

 

[Capt Straight]

I still have my father's game tickets and UT annual from the team that went unbeaten and unscored on until it went to Rose Bowl and lost to USC.

 

[Capt Straight]

Here is some of the stuff

 

[Capt Straight]

What was it like storming the beaches of Normandy?

I don't know, but my father graduated from UT as a ROTC Major and went straight into the Army as Major in charge of 191st Field Artillery under Patton. He was KIA in France when I was 3 months old, so I never knew him.

 

[OldandStillaVol]

I still have my father's game tickets and UT annual from the team that went unbeaten and unscored on until it went to Rose Bowl and lost to USC.

Good stuff. Can you post pictures of those items? I started following the Vols in 64 so I remember George Mooney although I didn't know his name at the time. Ward was only doing the basketball games before he added football.

In those days, all of the schools had good radio play by play and color commentators. My older brother and I would listen to LSU, Kentucky, and Georgia games at night. There was also a Knoxville radio station which would carry an SEC football broadcast on Sat. night.

 

[Capt Straight]

The Turf, the Voice and the Trailblazer: 1968 Tennessee-Georgia match-up was a game of firsts

 

[87&91ALUM]

One of my earliest memories of UT football.

 

[Capt Straight]

Good stuff. Can you post pictures of those items? I started following the Vols in 64 so I remember George Mooney although I didn't know his name at the time. Ward was only doing the basketball games before he added football.

In those days, all of the schools had good radio play by play and color commentators. My older brother and I would listen to LSU, Kentucky, and Georgia games at night. There was also a Knoxville radio station which would carry an SEC football broadcast on Sat. night.

Pics posted above

 

[Capt Straight]

We still play the single wing although it is not called that anymore.

 

[OldandStillaVol]

Pics posted above

Your dad was a member of the Greatest Generation and I honor him for his sacrifice.

 

[VolGirl1126]

I don't know, but my father graduated from UT as a ROTC Major and went straight into the Army as Major in charge of 191st Field Artillery under Patton. He was KIA in France when I was 3 months old, so I never knew him.

Sad! I had an uncle killed in France and another killed in the Phillipines. I always felt cheated because I never knew them, but that's nothing compared to you.

 

[Kngsport VFL]

Wow. And I thought i was old. - LOL Doug Dickey was coach when i started paying attention to the vols, about 10 years old.