butchna
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Remembered John Rollins being mentioned in that Sport magazine expose The Trouble In Tennessee for this particular incident. IIRC he was cleared. Former TE that they converted to FB. His son starts at QB for South Doyle...multi-sport kid.
That was my freshman year. Your memory is much better than mine.My older sister was a student at UT at the time (August 1988). I don't remember what the UT football player (John Rollins) had to do with the crime but it was Jeffrey Underwood (not a student) that entered a frat house uninvited while drunk and stabbed Tommy Baer (frat brother) to death...I don't remember which frat it was but Underwood was paroled back in the 90's and it created a firestorm in the local media.
He was indicted before he was cleared tho. 5 counts. Didn’t read your link, but another account from the victim’s older sister stated that Underwood brandished the knife earlier and was disarmed. He got the knife back and returned to the bar spewing threats. The victim was asked to guard one of the Frat’s entry points and he armed himself with an aluminum baseball bat. Underwood stabbed him multiple times, maybe 25. Underwood received a 15 year sentence for second degree murder and was paroled in 7.http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=420880
Rollins picked up the knife and may have wiped it off before giving it to the police.
He was just there when it happened. That’s all he did