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

#5
#5
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!
 
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#7
#7
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.
 
#8
#8
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.
 
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