Where is Bertelkamp?

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ArdentVol said:
bert's dad was one of the great tennessee basketball supporters. Bert was several years behind me in HS, note pix at end with his dad in 1982
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Bert Bertelkamp's basketball career at Tennessee and Bearden High

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Great pictures. I'm the same age and was at UT 75-80. This team he was on had Stokely ROCKING. Great memories of walking over from the dorms over to Stokely, sometimes snowing outside and catching the games. There have been some legends since then, but you tend to look back on your youth and think, wow - that night watching Ray Mears, Bernard King, Ernie Grunfeld and looking up and seeing John Ward doing his play by play from the catwalk. Would love to relive that. Seems like yesterday.
 
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ptcarter said:
Great pictures. I'm the same age and was at UT 75-80. This team he was on had Stokely ROCKING. Great memories of walking over from the dorms over to Stokely, sometimes snowing outside and catching the games. There have been some legends since then, but you tend to look back on your youth and think, wow - that night watching Ray Mears, Bernard King, Ernie Grunfeld and looking up and seeing John Ward doing his play by play from the catwalk. Would love to relive that. Seems like yesterday.
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Good time to be a BasketVols fan (just like these CRB years). Hope Bert is doing well and Steve Hamer the Rimtamer is fantastic filling in.
 
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ptcarter said:
Great pictures. I'm the same age and was at UT 75-80. This team he was on had Stokely ROCKING. Great memories of walking over from the dorms over to Stokely, sometimes snowing outside and catching the games. There have been some legends since then, but you tend to look back on your youth and think, wow - that night watching Ray Mears, Bernard King, Ernie Grunfeld and looking up and seeing John Ward doing his play by play from the catwalk. Would love to relive that. Seems like yesterday.
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was im stokely for nearly every Vol game from 64 to 68
73 years old here and worked a few years for the Huntsville Times

the craft beer in huntsville is to my liking
 
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ptcarter said:
Great pictures. I'm the same age and was at UT 75-80. This team he was on had Stokely ROCKING. Great memories of walking over from the dorms over to Stokely, sometimes snowing outside and catching the games. There have been some legends since then, but you tend to look back on your youth and think, wow - that night watching Ray Mears, Bernard King, Ernie Grunfeld and looking up and seeing John Ward doing his play by play from the catwalk. Would love to relive that. Seems like yesterday.
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Got to sit next to Bert by chance at a football game when I was a student. He just happened to have the ticket next to me. He was fun. A little glassy eyed though, like the rest of us.

I just happened to be on campus a bunch of years ago passing through to go to Tellico. Took my daughter for an impromptu tour of the campus. Unknown to me it happened to be a day they were swinging a wrecking ball through Stokely. I nearly cried.
 
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ZZ13 said:
Got to sit next to Bert by chance at a football game when I was a student. He just happened to have the ticket next to me. He was fun. A little glassy eyed though, like the rest of us.

I just happened to be on campus a bunch of years ago passing through to go to Tellico. Took my daughter for an impromptu tour of the campus. Unknown to me it happened to be a day they were swinging a wrecking ball through Stokely. I nearly cried.
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As a kid in the '60s, I listened to UT basketball on the radio with my Dad. Next day, there, might be a single photograph in a newspaper. You could always tell Stokely by the HVAC ductwork in the ceiling. Couldn't miss it on about every camera angle and it sure shows up in the article posted. EDIT: No, went back and looked.. Couldn't see the ductwork on the KNS article, but here's a typical shot that you saw in the Newspapers.

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I cried too. Saw that. 2014. WARNING Disturbing picture follows. (note the ductwork in the ceiling)

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ptcarter said:
As a kid in the '60s, I listened to UT basketball on the radio with my Dad. Next day, there, might be a single photograph in a newspaper. You could always tell Stokely by the HVAC ductwork in the ceiling. Couldn't miss it on about every camera angle and it sure shows up in the article posted.

I cried too. Saw that. 2014. WARNING Disturbing picture follows. (note the ductwork in the ceiling)

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One of my favorite Vol memories across all sports is Vols vs KY January 1980 in Stokley with my Dad. Reggie Johnson, Howard Wood, Bert and a Frosh Dale Ellis with Sam Bowie on the other side.


Big win. And we got in with student tickets. I was 12 and my Dad was in his 40s.
 
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Have enjoyed hearing Bert when I get a chance to listen. Makes me laugh when I hear him in the highlight clips as well

I remember him mostly from when we would pass his picture in the hallway of our HS on the way to the bball locker room. Someone would always yell out his name and it just sounded funny to a bunch of teenage boys.
 
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ptcarter said:
As a kid in the '60s, I listened to UT basketball on the radio with my Dad. Next day, there, might be a single photograph in a newspaper. You could always tell Stokely by the HVAC ductwork in the ceiling. Couldn't miss it on about every camera angle and it sure shows up in the article posted. EDIT: No, went back and looked.. Couldn't see the ductwork on the KNS article, but here's a typical shot that you saw in the Newspapers.

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I cried too. Saw that. 2014. WARNING Disturbing picture follows. (note the ductwork in the ceiling)

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When the one game a year was broadcast on network or regional coverage, two rows of additional lights had to be brought into Stokely and hung on either side of the scoreboard to illuminate the floor sufficiently for the television camera technology of the 70s, also, in the first photo, you can see John Ward's perch, just above the scoreboard, from which he painted masterworks that Vol fans listened to all season long, about half of the season ticket holders showed up with transistor radios in their pocket to hear his call while they were watching the action. He was that good.

He had Ernie Robertson's black and white video cameras on either end of the perch along with the color film cameras that the University's Department of Photo Services operated up there during the season, the public broadcast station, Channel 2, would replay most of the Saturday night home conference games off the black and white video collected at 11:30 p.m., Ward's play by play laid in on top of it, no commercials, just the commentary, made a lot of people late for church the next day
 
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By the 80s, when ESPN got in the game, Stokley was always well prepared. Sat 12,700, but in big games, 13,000 were there. That's at least as big and bigger, than a lot of venues now. Cameron still doesn't house that capacity. Fog Allen is slightly more. Florida was in the final four 4 times from late 90s through mid 2000s, playing in 3 national championship games and winning 2 of them, back to back. The capacity at the O'Connell center is still less than Stokely was in the 1970s. You can thank Ray Mears. Saturday Night at Stokely was a big f'ing deal
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
By the 80s, when ESPN got in the game, Stokley was always well prepared. Sat 12,700, but in big games, 13,000 were there. That's at least as big and bigger, than a lot of venues now. Cameron still doesn't house that capacity. Fog Allen is slightly more. Florida was in the final four 4 times from late 90s through mid 2000s, playing in 3 national championship games and winning 2 of them, back to back. The capacity at the O'Connell center is still less than Stokely was in the 1970s. You can thank Ray Mears. Saturday Night at Stokely was a big f'ing deal
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Did anyone ever watch an indoor track meet in Stokely? That’s why the somewhat flat angle to the seating. They’d pull back a bunch of the front rows to create the track. I saw it in that configuration once (mid 1970s). But never saw an actual track meet.
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
One of my favorite Vol memories across all sports is Vols vs KY January 1980 in Stokley with my Dad. Reggie Johnson, Howard Wood, Bert and a Frosh Dale Ellis with Sam Bowie on the other side.


Big win. And we got in with student tickets. I was 12 and my Dad was in his 40s.
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I was at the SAC that Saturday nite... dang it was cold outside (edit opps that was the Jan 82 game)
 
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TartanTurff said:
When the one game a year was broadcast on network or regional coverage, two rows of additional lights had to be brought into Stokely and hung on either side of the scoreboard to illuminate the floor sufficiently for the television camera technology of the 70s, also, in the first photo, you can see John Ward's perch, just above the scoreboard, from which he painted masterworks that Vol fans listened to all season long, about half of the season ticket holders showed up with transistor radios in their pocket to hear his call while they were watching the action. He was that good.

He had Ernie Robertson's black and white video cameras on either end of the perch along with the color film cameras that the University's Department of Photo Services operated up there during the season, the public broadcast station, Channel 2, would replay most of the Saturday night home conference games off the black and white video collected at 11:30 p.m., Ward's play by play laid in on top of it, no commercials, just the commentary, made a lot of people late for church the next day
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This is great Thanks for the detailed insight.
 
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ZZ13 said:
Did anyone ever watch an indoor track meet in Stokely? That’s why the somewhat flat angle to the seating. They’d pull back a bunch of the front rows to create the track. I saw it in that configuration once (mid 1970s). But never saw an actual track meet.
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severa; times in late 60s
was awed when i stepped onto floor for a mears clinic for young hoopsters
 
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