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chuckiepoo said:
That’s pretty obscure stuff. Were you on the Beacon staff?
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Sorry…

No, I've been working with Richmond Flowers researching his 1960s career the last few years. Richmond had a fire in the 70s that wiped out a bunch of his stuff. Along the way in that research, I would pick up things that lead me to some older things like this "easter egg". I first learned about this going through old Sporting News copies.
 
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Dartmouth Vol said:
Sorry…

No, I've been working with Richmond Flowers researching his 1960s career the last few years. Richmond had a fire in the 70s that wiped out a bunch of his stuff. Along the way in that research, I would pick up things that lead me to some older things like this "easter egg". I first learned about this going through old Sporting News copies.
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Thank you for the follow up!
 
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Dartmouth Vol said:
Sorry…

No, I've been working with Richmond Flowers researching his 1960s career the last few years. Richmond had a fire in the 70s that wiped out a bunch of his stuff. Along the way in that research, I would pick up things that lead me to some older things like this "easter egg". I first learned about this going through old Sporting News copies.
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Sounds like a very cool project, whatever you care to share about it would be fantastic!

GBO!!!
 
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vol66 said:
Sounds like a very cool project, whatever you care to share about it would be fantastic!

GBO!!!
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Track team receivers

He was a solid player. He broke 900 yards once in 11 years. He averaged 600 yards and 4 TDs per season over his career. He was never at the level of the top guys of his era like Largent, Collinsworth, Monk, etc. There have been a lot of 600.yards per season NFL guys, they have been very...
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Dartmouth Vol said:
A little is here...

Track team receivers

He was a solid player. He broke 900 yards once in 11 years. He averaged 600 yards and 4 TDs per season over his career. He was never at the level of the top guys of his era like Largent, Collinsworth, Monk, etc. There have been a lot of 600.yards per season NFL guys, they have been very...
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Thanks for that, great read.
 
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Dartmouth Vol said:
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I was born in ‘66, by the time I was 5 or 6, I’d hear stories, and we got the newspaper daily and I definitely recall my parents talking about Richmond and Hal Wantland. Hal most definitely grew up with my folks in Columbia and Mount Pleasant, and ended up rooming with my dad at UT.

Richmond, was, In my folks’ mind…fast as lighting. This thing called WR U…Mr. Flowers was there and that was when throwing the ball was an emergency.
 
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vol66 said:
I was born in ‘66, by the time I was 5 or 6, I’d hear stories, and we got the newspaper daily and I definitely recall my parents talking about Richmond and Hal Wantland. Hal most definitely grew up with my folks and ended up rooming with my dad at UT.

Richmond, was, In my folks’ mind…fast as lighting. This thing called WR U…Mr. Flowers was there and that was when throwing the ball was an emergency.
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Richmond was the first major national recruit of the post Neyland passing (in 1962) rebirth of Tennessee athletics especially RE: the Olympic sports. He was 1st UT on the SI cover, 1st individual national championship in UT history. On ABC's Wide World of Sports every big meet. His national track invites to meets got a lot of other track Vols into invitational meets they had been ignored until then, with the publicity that went with it because he insisted they be invited as well to get him!

RE: speed.

In Albuquerque, New Mexico...1966, Richmond ran a 6.0, a 1/10th of a second off the world indoor 60 dash record as a true freshman.
 
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Dartmouth Vol said:
Richmond was the first major national recruit of the post Neyland passing (in 1962) rebirth of Tennessee athletics especially RE: the Olympic sports. He was 1st UT on the SI cover, 1st individual national championship in UT history. On ABC's Wide World of Sports every big meet. His national track invites to meets got a lot of other track Vols into invitational meets they had been ignored until then, with the publicity that went with it because he insisted they be invited as well to get him!

RE: speed.

In Albuquerque, New Mexico...1966, Richmond ran a 6.0, a 1/10th of a second off the world indoor 60 dash record as a true freshman.
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What a great SI cover that I never knew existed!!
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CobbWebb71 said:
What a great SI cover that I never knew existed!!
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I was able to get a uncropped shot of that cover from SI. Not a huge deal but it showed just how much is cropped Re: those photos!

Edit: Look for the Wheaties box with Richmond on the back cover (also a 1st) ... From the 1965 Junior Olympics in Houston; Richmond won for Alabama almost by himself. He won the 100, 120 HH and the 180 LH at that meet just before he got to Knoxville.
 
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