Neyland Stadium Throwback

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At my first game UT ran the single wing in Neyland as pictured in the 1962-63 picture above. I was about 9-10 and remember it was in November and so cold my father and I would go down and warm up underneath the upper deck at fires folks were building from wood pallets.
 
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TNREADER said:
At my first game UT ran the single wing in Neyland as pictured in the 1962-63 picture above. I was about 9-10 and remember it was in November and so cold my father and I would go down and warm up underneath the upper deck at fires folks were building from wood pallets.
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'69 - '73 every year there was at least one home game where it was snowing or below freezing. Climate change doesn't exist.
 
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ptcarter said:
As a student during from '75-'79. This shot reminds me of the old clock on the top of the bank downtown. I waited tables and washed dishes at Gibbs Hall. Some damn cold winters in those years - walked from 14th and Forest to Gibbs early early early to work breakfast. Would look downtown and see the time/temp on that clock. A true beacon. It's that black horizontal square you see on the tall skinny building downtown.

"PARK" (hold two seconds)
"BANK" (hold two seconds)
"5:32" (hold two seconds)
"14 degrees" (hold two seconds) repeat
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I loved that sign. It was never the same after Park was bought out by First American and they changed the first line to FANB.

Yes, there were some cold winters then. In Jan. 77 I worked for a car dealership on N. Central. I took my car inside and washed it, and then drove to UT. I stopped at the Pilot at the old split on Cumberland for gas, and the fuel door on my VW Squareback was frozen closed! Argggg!
 
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Great Thread!!

Don't remember my first game but my earliest games I do remember hearing names like Jimmie Streater, Hubert Simpson and Craig Puki back around that time!! Maybe 78 or 79. Loved going with my Dad!!!
 
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I have a question for some of the old timers. I went with my family in 1976. I was 5. I vaguely remember that my father and brother got tickets, but my mom and I sat outside the stadium on a grass hill looking at the stadium in front of us. I also remember a building behind us where I remember people were on the roof watching the game. In all my years at UT as a college student I never could find the location. It must have been built on. Does anyone know where that might have been? Where was grass next to the stadium at that time?
 
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ptcarter said:
Thanks for starting this thread. I too love the old days. I've come across a few interesting pictures I've saved over the years. I'll dig them up.

Encourage anyone who has any decent resolutions shots of the old days to share.


I was a student from 1975 - 1980. I have several that may be of interest. I'll start out with a shot I took, from one of the upper floors of the undergraduate library (or Glocker). Looks like a weekend in the summer, place was deserted.

There was a darkroom in the basement of the Alumni gym, and I was messing around with Black and White infrared film (with a red filter). Not sure why. That's why the foliage looks white.

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Yeah I remember those old bleachers in the end zone. In 1978, I remember the Ole Miss game. Went from Vols 7 Rebels 17 to Vols 41 Rebels 17 at the end. As we walked outta there, the male Ole Miss fans were standing around that area dressed in those matching blue blazers,gray pants, and striped tie combos. Somebody asked the oldest one that looked like father time how much he wanted for his rebel flag. I learned more about profanity in that 30 seconds than some people get in a lifetime.
 
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SobeVol said:
I have a question for some of the old timers. I went with my family in 1976. I was 5. I vaguely remember that my father and brother got tickets, but my mom and I sat outside the stadium on a grass hill looking at the stadium in front of us. I also remember a building behind us where I remember people were on the roof watching the game. In all my years at UT as a college student I never could find the location. It must have been built on. Does anyone know where that might have been? Where was grass next to the stadium at that time?
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That would about have to be the old gym. I can't remember anything else being there. That grassy area would have gotten leveled down when they enclosed the north end zone and renovations may have happened to the gym around that time. The best pictures I have ever seen of that area was from that Billy Graham crusade back in the early 1970s. If there was a platform like you are talking about, I am sure there were people there that night.

Edit: I just checked google maps. The Alumni Memorial building is too far down the street to be there. The area you are talking about would be just down hill from Perkins Hall. Any building you are speaking of would have most likely been demolished when they closed up the north end of the stadium, but I don't remember it. One of the older engineering people might. That is their portion of the hill.

That grassy area was right off the right hand corner of the north end zone. It featured an interlocking white U and orange T. And there may have been a flag pole above it at one point in time.
 
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AF_VOL said:
For someone who has watched this program for so long, how does this current down swing in success compare to other tough times in the program?
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You know, people forget Johnny's first 10 years were pretty rough. Won 7 or less 7 times.

Also didn't have a winning season for 3 of those years.
 
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SobeVol said:
I have a question for some of the old timers. I went with my family in 1976. I was 5. I vaguely remember that my father and brother got tickets, but my mom and I sat outside the stadium on a grass hill looking at the stadium in front of us. I also remember a building behind us where I remember people were on the roof watching the game. In all my years at UT as a college student I never could find the location. It must have been built on. Does anyone know where that might have been? Where was grass next to the stadium at that time?
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I see your Mom and you up there by the UT under the flagpole!! ;)
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ptcarter said:
I took this picture. I was a high school student, interested in photography. My dream was to get a sideline pass and shoot a game elbow to elbow with the press guys. Never happened, so I had to take my shots from the stands.

UT/Clemson, Oct. 26, 1974.

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I was there awesome comeback!!!!!
 
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Boca Vol said:
The 2nd pic from the top is such a great perspective. You can see the track, Stokely, baseball field, the site of TBA....
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Now that you mention it, that is a good picture. Interesting the buildings that were "new" at that time. Undergrad library is there. McClung Tower. Bueller/Dabney Chemistry building there, Dougherty and Ferris there, but Dougherty seems on an island. If you notice the path from Cumberland up by Dougherty, it makes my legs hurt. From that point, it's a long uphill haul to Ayers.
Circle Park communications is there, which was once Frat row. Carol P. Brown student center had replaced Ernest and Ellis Drugstore on the corner of Cumblerland. I'll repost picture.

My guess is that this is around 1966-1969 timeframe. You see upper deck missing in south end zone, so that is a clue. Looks like the "Andy Holt" construction period had been going a while.

Campus wasn't much different when I got there in '75
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ptcarter said:
Now that you mention it, that is a good picture. Interesting the buildings that were "new" at that time. Undergrad library is there. McClung Tower. Bueller/Dabney Chemistry building there, Dougherty and Ferris there, but Dougherty seems on an island. If you notice the path from Cumberland up by Dougherty, it makes my legs hurt. From that point, it's a long uphill haul to Ayers.
Circle Park communications is there, which was once Frat row. Carol P. Brown student center had replaced Ernest and Ellis Drugstore on the corner of Cumblerland. I'll repost picture.

My guess is that this is around 1966-1969 timeframe. You see upper deck missing in south end zone, so that is a clue. Looks like the "Andy Holt" construction period had been going a while.

Campus wasn't much different when I got there in '75
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I remember having a class in Jesse Harris my FR. year. That was a hike from Carrick Hall.
 
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I was in Reese, '75-76. Most of my classes on the hill or the backside. Only English at McClung. Yes, long walk. I'd need defribulators now.
 
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ptcarter said:
This looks like Bama kicking a field goal in the south endzone. Guessing the '50s. Notice the farm like fence in the south endzone.

Old farts, like me, love to see the orange jerseys in these old pictures. That's why I (and I can only speak for myself) am not adapting too well to the "Smoky Gray".


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The goal post is pitiful!! LOVE these pictures, sir!
 
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TNnative said:
That would about have to be the old gym. I can't remember anything else being there. That grassy area would have gotten leveled down when they enclosed the north end zone and renovations may have happened to the gym around that time. The best pictures I have ever seen of that area was from that Billy Graham crusade back in the early 1970s. If there was a platform like you are talking about, I am sure there were people there that night.

Edit: I just checked google maps. The Alumni Memorial building is too far down the street to be there. The area you are talking about would be just down hill from Perkins Hall. Any building you are speaking of would have most likely been demolished when they closed up the north end of the stadium, but I don't remember it. One of the older engineering people might. That is their portion of the hill.

That grassy area was right off the right hand corner of the north end zone. It featured an interlocking white U and orange T. And there may have been a flag pole above it at one point in time.
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The old Alumni Memorial Gym is to the West North West of the grassy hill where the UT is painted on the hill. The old black and White score board was where that UT was painted. I remember when Kentucky played basketball against us back in the 50s and Rupp's team came out of the locker room wearing miner's helmets with the gas light on the helmets lit. Lighting in the old gym was not very good.
 
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Here is the oldest of the old. Really, this picture doesn't belong here. Why? This thread is about Neyland Stadium, UT, the Hill etc. Neyland didn't exist. Football didn't exist. Ayres Hall, built in 1921 (Hey, my Mom was born that year) wasn't there. This picture is "The Hill" from across the river when it was Blount College (I think). Is that Estabrook Hall in the foreground to the left?

Pretend you were sitting there watching the river flow then. Could you ever image a venue popping in across the river bank that would hold 100,000 screaming fans?? Fun to think about.

The second picture is from the Civil War era.
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