More Vol football triva [please]

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When someone brought back names of Leroy Thompson and Reggie Cobb it brought back some good memories, and bad ones and that-but mostly good. So please, keep it flowing. It helps fill in the days till kick off.
 
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Can you name at least 3 Vols that played football at Franklin County High School and went on to play at UT?
 
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(OrangePappy @ May 16 said:
Can you name at least 3 Vols that played football at Franklin County High School and went on to play at UT?
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Phillip Fulmer
Tracy Hayworth
Jeff Hall

Go BaseVOLS!!
 
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What's the obvious give-away, if you've read about Neyland, that the classic early-50's picture of him standing in front of the bench with a player (Kelly?) kneeling beside him (as if it was mid-game) is a posed fake?

 
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We all know how great the two Travises (Henry and Stephens) were as Vol tailbacks. Yet there was a third Travis that was destined to be a star RB for the Vols. Coming out of JUCO in the spring practices of 1995 (then they really were spring practices) he dazzlled the media and coaches with long and spectacular runs, actually outplaying Jay Graham and Ronnie Pillow fo the starting TB position, vacated by the graduated tandem of Stewart/Hayden.

Who was this phenom from Lenoir City that never made to the opening game of the season due to personal or diciplinary reasons that I forgot?
 
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(rockydoc @ May 17 said:
We all know how great the two Travises (Henry and Stephens) were as Vol tailbacks. Yet there was a third Travis that was destined to be a star RB for the Vols. Coming out of JUCO in the spring practices of 1995 (then they really spring practices) he dazzlled the media and coaches with long and spectacular runs, actually outplaying Jay Graham and Ronnie Pillow fo the starting TB position, vacated by the graduated tandem of Stewart/Hayden.

Who was this phenom from Lenoir City that never made to the opening game of the season due to personal or diciplinary reasons that I forgot?
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Travis Cozart. By the way, Joey Matthews did start the opener in 2000.
 
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Come to think about it we could field a pretty good team from State of Tennessee stars that flunked or busted out at UT like Cozart , Dustin Moore, etc.

When I was growing up in rural Wayne Co. people still talked about a great running back from Waynesboro named Hubert Mclain that got a
scholarship to play for the Vols in the 1950's (only kid from the county as far as I know to ever get a chance to play for UT) Nevertheless, according to local lore too much partying and fun and he was back home soon. (I saw in the county paper a few months ago that he had passed on.)
 
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(Perry Parris @ May 16 said:
Phillip Fulmer
Tracy Hayworth
Jeff Hall

Go BaseVOLS!!
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Don't forget Bill Rudder(FB)and Ayan Martin(LB), although Martin may not count because I don't know that he ever made it in to school. Interesting thing about Hayworth, his brother Tony use to help us haul hay in the summer because their place was back behind my brother-in-laws farm. Their Dad raised, uhh, Roosters that had their on little house.
 
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(OrangePappy @ May 16 said:
Can you name at least 3 Vols that played football at Franklin County High School and went on to play at UT?
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Was the Basketball player John WINCHESTER not from there? :crazy:
 
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(OrangePappy @ May 17 said:
Don't forget Bill Rudder(FB)and Ayan Martin(LB), although Martin may not count because I don't know that he ever made it in to school. Interesting thing about Hayworth, his brother Tony use to help us haul hay in the summer because their place was back behind my brother-in-laws farm. Their Dad raised, uhh, Roosters that had their on little house.
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I remember reading that he and Marion Hobby (both were very good defensive ends for the Vols) were friends. One summer Tracy took Marion home with him to their farm for the summer. Hobby, being from the city, Birmingham had never worked on the farm and said the hard work hauling hay, carring feed to the animals and working the fields from daylight to dark almost killed him. Needless to say Hobby was all SEC that fall. Maybe Phil should send his entire team to Franklin County to work on the farm this Summer. :ermm:
 
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(rockydoc @ May 17 said:
I remember reading that he and Marion Hobby (both were very good defensive ends for the Vols) were friends. One summer Tracy took Marion home with him to their farm for the summer. Hobby, being from the city, Birmingham had never worked on the farm and said the hard work hauling hay, carring feed to the animals and working the fields from daylight to dark almost killed him. Needless to say Hobby was all SEC that fall. Maybe Phil should send his entire team to Franklin County to work on the farm this Summer. :ermm:
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A white head coach in the South telling his team, comprised mostly of African-Americans, to go work the farm over the summer. Yeah, that's great imagery.
 
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(hatvol96 @ May 17 said:
A white head coach in the South telling his team, comprised mostly of African-Americans, to go work the farm over the summer. Yeah, that's great imagery.
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When you took English 101 at the McClung Tower while you were at UT did you not learn what an ALLEGORY is. Or were you too damn hung over from your Sigma Chi keg party the night before! :banghead:

Do I have to explain everything to you! No, Fulmer would not order his charges to go to the farm just as a modern day Bear Bryant couldn't send his all whit football team to the "Junction" today. :devilsmoke:
 
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(rockydoc @ May 17 said:
When you took English 101 at the McClung Tower while you were at UT did you not learn what an ALLEGORY is. Or were you too damn hung over from your Sigma Chi keg party the night before! :banghead:

Do I have to explain everything to you! No, Fulmer would not order his charges to go to the farm just as a modern day Bear Bryant couldn't send his all whit football team to the "Junction" today. :devilsmoke:
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Allegory is about imagery. I think that was the point of my comment.
As I've mentioned here before, I'm far too individualistic to have been a member of a frat. I actually took English 101 at the Oak Ridge campus of Roane State the summer before I enrolled at UT. It gave me the space in my schedule to add Rusty Holloway's History of Rock 'n Roll class. I have partied at the Sigma Chi house. Actually, other than that weird AG frat, I think I attended at least one party at every major house on campus.
 
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(hatvol96 @ May 17 said:
Allegory is about imagery. I think that was the point of my comment.
As I've mentioned here before, I'm far too individualistic to have been a member of a frat. I actually took English 101 at the Oak Ridge campus of Roane State the summer before I enrolled at UT. It gave me the space in my schedule to add Rusty Holloway's History of Rock 'n Roll class. I have partied at the Sigma Chi house. Actually, other than that weird AG frat, I think I attended at least one party at every major house on campus.
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Hey, now you have really insulted me as I really was in Alpha Gamma Rho which was one of the Agriculture frats (along with Farmhouse). We had some really good parties at least compared to what I was used to.
 
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(hatvol96 @ May 17 said:
Allegory is about imagery. I think that was the point of my comment.
As I've mentioned here before, I'm far too individualistic to have been a member of a frat. I actually took English 101 at the Oak Ridge campus of Roane State the summer before I enrolled at UT. It gave me the space in my schedule to add Rusty Holloway's History of Rock 'n Roll class. I have partied at the Sigma Chi house. Actually, other than that weird AG frat, I think I attended at least one party at every major house on campus.
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when i took that class it was taught by Steve Young....really. :birgits_giggle:
 
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(rockydoc @ May 18 said:
Hey, now you have really insulted me as I really was in Alpha Gamma Rho which was one of the Agriculture frats (along with Farmhouse). We had some really good parties at least compared to what I was used to.
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I had some friends in AGR, they were cool. The Farmhouse, or whatever they were called, were just a little too enthusiastic about farming for my tastes.
 
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(jakez4ut @ May 18 said:
when i took that class it was taught by Steve Young....really. :birgits_giggle:
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The man who wrote Seven Bridges Road for the Eagles. He and Rusty alternated semesters when I was at UT.
 
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did not know that....that class was awesome... i remember one paper i had to write....he wanted a paper on the metaphorical nature of Led Zepplin's music.

the best homework assignment i think i ever had.
 
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(jakez4ut @ May 18 said:
did not know that....that class was awesome... i remember one paper i had to write....he wanted a paper on the metaphorical nature of Led Zepplin's music.

the best homework assignment i think i ever had.
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It was a really enjoyable and informative class. One of the few classes I actually still have the "textbook" from.
 
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(Perry Parris @ May 16 said:
Phillip Fulmer
Tracy Hayworth
Jeff Hall

Go BaseVOLS!!
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I met Tracy back several years ago in Minneapolis, MN during a Vikings/Tigers game. I've been friends with Antonio London (from Tullahoma but went to Bama) since high school. After the game Antonio got me in the locker room to meet up with him and visit with all of the other Tiger players. Since I was wearing my Tennessee hat, Tracy Hayworth came from behind me and grabbing me and spinning yelling "Go Vols!" I was like who the hell is this?? Once he finally let me down, I realized it was Tracy. We talked for a good while, he's one cool dude!
 
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(Z06Vol @ May 18 said:
I met Tracy back several years ago in Minneapolis, MN during a Vikings/Tigers game. I've been friends with Antonio London (from Tullahoma but went to Bama) since high school. After the game Antonio got me in the locker room to meet up with him and visit with all of the other Tiger players. Since I was wearing my Tennessee hat, Tracy Hayworth came from behind me and grabbing me and spinning yelling "Go Vols!" I was like who the hell is this?? Once he finally let me down, I realized it was Tracy. We talked for a good while, he's one cool dude!
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cool story...i met Chad Clifton and several other guys the night after the TN/Aub SEC CG in ATL in 97...i was at a bar in Buckhead, and they walked in and we began talking, really cool guy, and was in a great mood after just winning the SEC....of course i asked him what he thought about the next season, and his quote was "do you think Nebraska can run the ball?" I sais, yeah, sure, and he replied "then wait until you see us next year". And sure enough...98 came along....and the rest is as they say...history.
good night all around.
 
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back on topic...saw this in the Tennessean article posted on the home page....thought this has to be a source of some Vol trivia...referencing Gen. Neyland's career at UT...:

"His 1939 team remains the measuring stick for all college football teams. The Vols went unbeaten, untied and unscored upon in 10 regular-season games that year. Over the course of Neyland's 21-year career, 112 of his 216 opponents failed to score against his Tennessee teams."

Now i knew about the 39 team not getting scored on...but had no idea that 112 games in his career, the other team failed to score.

that's impressive. that has to be a record?

 
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