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OneVolNation said:
Get him to be a WR. We've had a ton of wide receivers that were track stars first.
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An Era Preserved: Rohe Track Reunion - University of Tennessee Athletics

Oct. 3, 2014 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- With the pageantry and tradition of a Tennessee-Florida football game at Neyland Stadium swelling to its climax just before ...
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Rohe arrived on Rocky Top in 1962 and served as the head track and field coach as well as the football recruiting coordinator. As such, he quickly became the link between between football players and track and field athletes at Tennessee, introducing the dual-athlete concept that paid tremendous dividends for both programs.

One of Rohe's most successful dual athletes was Richmond Flowers,
 
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"Ladies and gentlemen, Willie Gault has run all the way to the State Capitol"
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Willie Gault was born in Griffin, Georgia, where he played football and ran track at Griffin High School. Highly recruited as a dual sport athlete, he chose the University of Tennessee for its football and track programs. On the gridiron, Gault was named Consensus All-American in 1982 and led Tennessee in all-purpose yards for three consecutive years, leaving Tennessee as one of the greatest kick returners in college football history. During his career at UT, Gault caught 89 passes for 1,482 yards and 10 touchdowns, returned 78 kickoffs for 1,854 yards and four touchdowns, and returned 78 punts for 659 yards and a touchdown.

As a member of the Vol track team, Gault was an 11-time All-American. He was the 1983 NCAA Indoor champion in the 60 yard dash and 60 yard hurdles and a member of the NCAA Outdoor winning 4×100 meter relay the same year. In 1981 and 1982, Gault was the SEC Champion in the 110 meter hurdles, and in 1983, he captured the SEC Championship in the 200 meter. Gault was the high point scorer in the 1982 and 1983 SEC Championship track meets and finished his time at UT holding 12 school records in football and 3 in track and field.
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
My point was they didn't come here for track first as you suggested. None of our great AA receivers were track first guys. None
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Richmond Flowers, Jr. grew up in a household of high expectations. His father, Richmond Flowers Sr. was an Alabama state senator and later the Attorney General. While in high school, Flowers set the national high school record for the High Hurdles in 13.5, tied the national low hurdle record of 18.2 and set the World Record for a high school athlete running the college hurdles in 13.8.

In the 1964 Alabama State Track Championships, he finished first in five events with five state records. He ended his high school career with eight gold medals, two silver medals, five state records, two national records and one world record. Even today, 40 years later, his performance has not been approached.

In track, he was a four-time track and field All-American, an NCAA High Hurdle Champion and NCAA record holder in two events. In 1968, he had become the number on hurdler in the world and favored to win the gold at the Mexico Olympics. That year, he was just 1/10 second off the World 60 yard high hurdle record becoming Tennessee’s first NCAA Track Champion.

Flowers defeated the World record holder, Earl McCullough and finished first seven times in eight major meets. He also defeated Willie Davenport, the eventual 1968 Olympic Gold medalist, on Davenport’s own home track, and then repeated the defeat the following day on Flowers’ home track. Named the number one high hurdler in the world, his dream of winning the Olympic title ended on June 2, 1968 with a season ending hamstring injury.
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
My point was they didn't come here for track first as you suggested. None of our great AA receivers were track first guys. None
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I get it. Jeff Powell might not have been named an AA in football, but he was good and came from track and field. He scored that big TD in the '86 Sugar Bowl against Miami and racked up over a hundred yards that game. He was an AA in Track and Field before he played football. Willie Gault is another Vol legend dual athlete, as well as Bobby Dodd and the list goes on. Anthony Miller started in track and field until his high school coach convinced him to play football as a senior. He got a scholly for track and field and then transferred so he could play football and became a star wide receiver for Tennessee. Go Vols!
 
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OneVolNation said:
I get it. Jeff Powell might not have been named an AA in football, but he was good and came from track and field. He scored that big TD in the '86 Sugar Bowl against Miami and racked up over a hundred yards that game. He was an AA in Track and Field before he played football. Willie Gault is another Vol legend dual athlete, as well as Bobby Dodd and the list goes on. Anthony Miller started in track and field until his high school coach convinced him to play football as a senior. He got a scholly for track and field and then transferred so he could play football and became a star wide receiver for Tennessee. Go Vols!
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Yeah, Powell definitely came to UT for track, transferring from William&Mary. Miller was a JUCO AA receivers who came here for football but was a track guy before football in high school. Gault was dual but was a HS AA receiver. All our best all time receivers were football first guys. Seivers, Morgan, McGee, Pickens, Nash, Harper. Harper also-ran hurdles a couple of years in the track team. Powell was a RB
 
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