92 years ago....

[LittleCat]

Hey now, my HS colors where blue and yellow..

I just remembered Michigan has blue and yellow as well. Maybe not so bad.

 

[Doyle Hargraves]

I just remembered Michigan has blue and yellow as well. Maybe not so bad.

No, you were right the first time.
Michigan is a touchy topic around here nowadays.

 

[HangUpAndListen]

I'm proud to be an Emory and Henry alum, and I love that they are part of Vol history. Go Wasps!


And GO BIG ORANGE!!!!


On a (sort of) related note, E&H will play ETSU (connection to Coach Fulmer) next year.

 

[LittleCat]

No, you were right the first time.
Michigan is a touchy topic around here nowadays.

Oh I certainly think its a bad color scheme, but not dreadful like I intially thought.

 

[Volz4lif3]

I just remembered Michigan has blue and yellow as well. Maybe not so bad.

Maize and blue, pfft

 

[Doyle Hargraves]

Oh I certainly think its a bad color scheme, but not dreadful like I intially thought.

They gonna take are coarch!!!!!

 

[LittleCat]

They gonna take are coarch!!!!!

I seriously doubt it, but who knows. Crazy things can happen.

 

[Volz4lif3]

They gonna take are coarch!!!!!

*oar

 

[gogators13]

 

[Volosaurus rex]

That is the 'story' as told by the UT marketing dept. Another similar but much older version is when the team captain, (was it really Charles Moore of the first squad?) was asked by a sportswriter what the team colors were, he had no answer. Football was merely a club sport in those days, sort of like bass tournament fishing is now. Anyway, thinking on his feet, the good captain looked around and planted all around and in full autumn bloom were flower beds of orange and white mums; not the 'daisey's on a hill'. I suppose the daisey thing sounds a bit more romantic to a advertising and marketing type instead of it just being the flowers that happened to be in UT's flower beds and were in bloom.

Which is what? I don't know. I find the mums story, which was all I ever heard until recently, easier to believe. But, it's possible that was the 'made up' story until someone turned up daiseys doing research in the bowels of the old graduate library.

Either, or, tomato, tomahto.

123 years after the "fact," it can be difficult, indeed, to distinguish definitively between historical fact and fiction. There was a quote from the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance which is perfectly appropriate to this occasion:

Ransom Stoddard: You're not going to use the story, Mr. Scott?

Maxwell Scott: No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.