i was reading this article....

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Just imagine with travel being what it was in 1939 what a huge disadvantage it had to be to go clear out to the West Coast and play USC.
 
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(GAVol @ May 18 said:
Just imagine with travel being what it was in 1939 what a huge disadvantage it had to be to go clear out to the West Coast and play USC.
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true. Plus that was a home game for them. i bet we had very few fans travel with the team.


But still, we had gone un scored upon all season long. we should have won.
 
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But it didn't happen. It's the way things go. Even still, that team is well-known for having among the best regular seasons of all time.
 
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(milohimself @ May 18 said:
But it didn't happen. It's the way things go. Even still, that team is well-known for having among the best regular seasons of all time.
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Thanks for the cold splash of water, milo. :geek:
 
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It's not like it really cost them anything though. The bowls were just exhibition games back then.
 
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(GAVol @ May 18 said:
It's not like it really cost them anything though. The bowls were just exhibition games back then.
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True, but had that game been played in Knoxville....or even Atlanta, and Tennessee won without being scored on....in a different timeline how would that team as well as todays Vols be viewed?....intresting thought.
 
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Maybe they would be better remembered, but I don't think it would really change much. I may be wrong about this, but I think the year before Colgate accomplished the same feat and wasn't even invited to play in a bowl.
 
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To add to GAVol's point - many times, the entire team did not make these trips. Post season rankings were determined prior to bowl games.

It's pretty telling to see how many "national champions" from those days lost their bowl games.
 
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Didn't we go unscored upon in 1951, as well? I thought I read somewhere the last time anyone went unscored upon was UT in 51.
 
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Hmm, nope. 1951 the Vols were 10-1 in 1951, SEC Champions. They did have five shutouts, though, against Mississippi State, Duke, Tennessee Tech, North Carolina and Kentucky. Tennessee also had a share of the 1951 national championship split with Maryland, however the two teams played afterwards in the Sugar Bowl in which Tennessee lost 13-28.
 
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The 1939 squad shut out all of its opponents during the regular season before losing to Southern Cal in the Rose Bowl. The loss was UT's first in two years and came with Cafego sidelined by injury.
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It would have been a different story if "Bad News" Cafego was playing.

Click me for more about "Bad News"
 
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Figure UT won titles in 1938 and 1940, and 1939 (considered the best of that three-year stretch) had nothing. Supposedly a UT player in 1940 placed a curse on the NCAA by saying that since they hadn't won three straight in spite of being most deserving, no one ever would....and 65 years later, no one has.
 
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