Memories of past UT Games ... Some Good, some we'd rather forget ...

[Mustng959]

After last week's stinging loss to South Carolina, I was thinking about games that I either watched on TV, went to, or listened to on the radio. I posted my memories of the 1986 Sugar Bowl in the thread "Reality Check".
52nd Annual Sugar Bowl Classic ~ January 1, 1986

Well if we go back almost 20 years from that Sugar Bowl, I remember listening on the radio to when the #3 Tennessee Vols traveled to Jackson, Mississippi to play Ole Miss. We had 2 outstanding linebackers on the team, in fact All-Americans ... Steve Kiner and Jack Reynolds. There was a lot of smack talk by Tennessee before the game, calling the Ole Miss team "Mules" and wearing buttons that said, "Archie Who". Ole Miss fans responded back with retorts to Steve Kiner's reference to"Mules". Even the young usually quiet sophmore QB responded that "We Want Tennessee bad". Ole Miss was ranked in the Top 20 but Tennessee wasn't really worried about the kid named Archie.

The game begins and the Rebels had something to prove and boy did they ever! The final score of the game was 37-0, Ole Miss. The young QB went on to be runner-up in the Heisman balloting and began a career in the NFL with the New Orleans Saints. He and his wife had 3 sons, 2 of which followed in their father's footsteps, however, one of them chose to attend college at the University of Tennessee. The 3rd son developed health issues and never was able to fulfill his dreams like his 2 younger brothers. Archie was indeed "Archie Manning". Sons Peyton and Eli are more familiar with the younger fans of the past 25 years or so.. Both winning 2 Superbowls each as quarterbacks.

As for Steve Kiner and Jack Reynolds of Tennessee, they were devastated by the loss. Jack was so upset and angry that rumor has it he took a hacksaw and cut his Jeep in half. Word got round and throughout his NFL career he was known as "Hacksaw" Reynolds. I was 10 then but I definitely remember my father and I listening to the game on AM radio and my Dad hollering the whole time as he bled orange also.

Losses for great Tennessee teams happens and we pick up, move on, and say 'Wait'll next year!" If you have any old game memories to share, post them here. I'll be posting more, also.
Go Vols

 

[cardvolfan]

After last week's stinging loss to South Carolina, I was thinking about games that I either watched on TV, went to, or listened to on the radio. I posted my memories of the 1986 Sugar Bowl in the thread "Reality Check".
52nd Annual Sugar Bowl Classic ~ January 1, 1986

Well if we go back almost 20 years from that Sugar Bowl, I remember listening on the radio to when the #3 Tennessee Vols traveled to Jackson, Mississippi to play Ole Miss. We had 2 outstanding linebackers on the team, in fact All-Americans ... Steve Kiner and Jack Reynolds. There was a lot of smack talk by Tennessee before the game, calling the Ole Miss team "Mules" and wearing buttons that said, "Archie Who". Ole Miss fans responded back with retorts to Steve Kiner's reference to"Mules". Even the young usually quiet sophmore QB responded that "We Want Tennessee bad". Ole Miss was ranked in the Top 20 but Tennessee wasn't really worried about the kid named Archie.

The game begins and the Rebels had something to prove and boy did they ever! The final score of the game was 37-0, Ole Miss. The young QB went on to be runner-up in the Heisman balloting and began a career in the NFL with the New Orleans Saints. He and his wife had 3 sons, 2 of which followed in their father's footsteps, however, one of them chose to attend college at the University of Tennessee. The 3rd son developed health issues and never was able to fulfill his dreams like his 2 younger brothers. Archie was indeed "Archie Manning". Sons Peyton and Eli are more familiar with the younger fans of the past 25 years or so.. Both winning 2 Superbowls each as quarterbacks.

As for Steve Kiner and Jack Reynolds of Tennessee, they were devastated by the loss. Jack was so upset and angry that rumor has it he took a hacksaw and cut his Jeep in half. Word got round and throughout his NFL career he was known as "Hacksaw" Reynolds. I was 10 then but I definitely remember my father and I listening to the game on AM radio and my Dad hollering the whole time as he bled orange also.

Losses for great Tennessee teams happens and we pick up, move on, and say 'Wait'll next year!" If you have any old game memories to share, post them here. I'll be posting more, also.
Go Vols

I remember that well as a little boy. I will add something to that story that you described very well: Someone had leaflets dropped from a small plane over Mississippi
Memorial Stadium saying “Archie Who” printed on them. It was a very bold, brash thing that Tennessee did and it cost them dearly. You just don’t go poking the bear and expect nothing to happen. Stay humble. Yeah, I was thinking of this exact game when folks say Saturday night was the biggest loss ever.

 

[cardvolfan]

“THE JACKSON MASSACRE” This is some great reading.

 

[Vanhalo]

This one sticks out for me.

 

[LadyVolette]

This one sticks out for me.

Oh yeah, that stung

 

[Orangepantsforever]

Joey Kent got Debo’d

 

[savannahfan]

After last week's stinging loss to South Carolina, I was thinking about games that I either watched on TV, went to, or listened to on the radio. I posted my memories of the 1986 Sugar Bowl in the thread "Reality Check".
52nd Annual Sugar Bowl Classic ~ January 1, 1986

Well if we go back almost 20 years from that Sugar Bowl, I remember listening on the radio to when the #3 Tennessee Vols traveled to Jackson, Mississippi to play Ole Miss. We had 2 outstanding linebackers on the team, in fact All-Americans ... Steve Kiner and Jack Reynolds. There was a lot of smack talk by Tennessee before the game, calling the Ole Miss team "Mules" and wearing buttons that said, "Archie Who". Ole Miss fans responded back with retorts to Steve Kiner's reference to"Mules". Even the young usually quiet sophmore QB responded that "We Want Tennessee bad". Ole Miss was ranked in the Top 20 but Tennessee wasn't really worried about the kid named Archie.

The game begins and the Rebels had something to prove and boy did they ever! The final score of the game was 37-0, Ole Miss. The young QB went on to be runner-up in the Heisman balloting and began a career in the NFL with the New Orleans Saints. He and his wife had 3 sons, 2 of which followed in their father's footsteps, however, one of them chose to attend college at the University of Tennessee. The 3rd son developed health issues and never was able to fulfill his dreams like his 2 younger brothers. Archie was indeed "Archie Manning". Sons Peyton and Eli are more familiar with the younger fans of the past 25 years or so.. Both winning 2 Superbowls each as quarterbacks.

As for Steve Kiner and Jack Reynolds of Tennessee, they were devastated by the loss. Jack was so upset and angry that rumor has it he took a hacksaw and cut his Jeep in half. Word got round and throughout his NFL career he was known as "Hacksaw" Reynolds. I was 10 then but I definitely remember my father and I listening to the game on AM radio and my Dad hollering the whole time as he bled orange also.

Losses for great Tennessee teams happens and we pick up, move on, and say 'Wait'll next year!" If you have any old game memories to share, post them here. I'll be posting more, also.
Go Vols

My worse was the "LSU loss in early 2000's" (will never get over that nightmare)
Very close would be the 1957 (?) Ole Miss game at old Crump stadium in Memphis (COLD and bad loss when ranked highly)
My best game memory would have to be the NC game in late 90's.
Very close to this would be listening to us beating the LSU Chinese bandit team (on the radio out of Jackson Tn) can still remember seeing the game in my mind as I had never even seen UT or Shield-Watkins field.

 

[HollowaytoSeivers]

Memphis 1996

And honestly, whether the Tigers KR's knee was down or not, Tennessee was not ready to compete that day.

Shades of Saturday night....

 

[Mustng959]

Its the fall of 1918. A ship load of soldiers are heading towards France to augment the forces there fighting the Germans in WWI. Halfway across the Atlantic Ocean on November 11th, the war is over!
A young man from East Tennessee comes back home and decides to play college football. He's a big fella and begins playing at Tusculum College outside of Greeneville, Tennessee. Wanting more action, he transfers to The University of the South at Sewanee. After another year, he decides to head to Knoxville at newly built Shields Watkins Field and begins playing for the University of Tennessee as a tackle on offense and defense. He's the biggest man on the team at 255 pounds and makes many tackles behind the line of scrimmage on defense while protecting the backs behind him on offense.
On one occasion on defense, a back was running at him with the football cradled and attempts to "stiff arm"" him. All of a sudden there's a scream, the football drops to the ground and there's a mad scramble for the fumble. When the pile clears, the runner jumps up and screams at the referee, "He bit me" and shows a bloody palm. The referee looks at the young man on defense and asked him if he bit the offensive back. The tackle replied, "Naw" as he spits out a plug of flesh and blood from his mouth ......

That man was my grandfather. Many years later at a reunion of this 1921 Vol Squad, then Coach M. B. Banks recalls this incident to the team as he's speaking and everybody has a good chuckle. My grandfather passed away in 1970 when I was only 10 years old. What I would give to hear more of his football stories as I've grown older and can better appreciate his days at Knoxville.