Tom Mattingly

• Tom Mattingly: Walk-throughs become strolls down memory lane Published 08/20/2011 at 10:46 p.m. 12 Comments

  Tom Mattingly recalls some great moments in Tennessee football history.

• Tom Mattingly: Geography of no concern for schedule makers in neutral-site games Published 08/13/2011 at 4:39 p.m. 4 Comments

  Sometimes you have to wonder if football schedule-makers or promoters ever took a course in geography. In an effort to make intersectional games "work" (that is, making them palatable for media exposure), geographic considerations often take a beating.

• Tom Mattingly: 'Team game' summed up best in three recent examples Published 07/30/2011 at 7:35 p.m. 16 Comments

  When the experts say football is a "team game," they really mean it. It takes a "team" to win. That's been true since the days of Pop Warner and Amos Alonzo Stagg. Tennessee coaches from the days of Bob Neyland ...

• Tom Mattingly: Bob Jones went from Vol foe to unforgettable assistant coach Published 07/23/2011 at 7:55 p.m. 3 Comments

  Here's an interesting question for all the armchair historians out there. Name an opposing quarterback who helped defeat Tennessee in a bowl game and became an assistant coach for the Vols several years later.

• Tom Mattingly: Fall of Wyatt's tenure still mystery Published 07/16/2011 at 5:57 p.m. 35 Comments

  Talk about a gauntlet. Whoever worked up the 1962 football schedule didn't do Tennessee coach Bowden Wyatt any favors. Not in the least.

• Tom Mattingly: Jim Maxwell brewed up special run in 1971 Published 07/09/2011 at 6:47 p.m. 6 Comments

  The 1971 Tennessee football season offered Vol fans a crash course in what can happen when things are unsettled at quarterback.

• Tom Mattingly: Choosing sides not straightforward Published 07/02/2011 at 11:15 p.m. 2 Comments

  Here's a question for your consideration during what is often called the "dog days" of summer, when everyone can barely wait for fall, or at least for the arrival of the Vols back on campus.

• Tom Mattingly: Beauty in the tie of the beholder Published 06/25/2011 at 9:51 p.m. 2 Comments

  When, if ever, could the lowly tie game be perceived as a win?

• Tom Mattingly: 1983 season ranks highly ... in memories Published 06/18/2011 at 5:34 p.m. 16 Comments

  You may not remember it, but there was once a 9-3 Tennessee team that was not ranked by the Associated Press during the entire season. It's all right there in black agate type on page 171 of the "2010 Tennessee ...

• Tom Mattingly: The stories behind the scores are memorable Published 06/11/2011 at 6:43 p.m. 10 Comments

  There are times the game-by-game scores in the Tennessee Football Media Guide, pp. 165-173, are just a mind-numbing array of numbers, assembled neatly through seasons stretching from that first game in 1891, Sewanee 24, Tennessee 0, through recent years.

• Mike LaSorsa, 1960 captain, dies at age 77 Published 12/26/2011 at 7:24 p.m. 8 Comments

  Mike LaSorsa, a Korean War veteran who came to Tennessee as a walk-on football player and finished his career as captain of the 1960 team, died Saturday at his Knoxville home, after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 77.

• Frank Boring, who played on 1951 title team, dies Published 12/12/2011 at 11:12 p.m. 6 Comments

  Frank "Boomer" Boring, a former teacher and football coach at Central High School, died Monday in Knoxville. He was 83.

• Steve Wold, former UT fullback, dies at 63 Published 11/15/2011 at 4 p.m. 10 Comments

  Steve Wold, a fullback who still holds a single-game record at Tennessee, died Nov. 5 at his home in Atlanta. He was 63.

• Former Vol All-American Alf Holmberg dies at 83 Published 11/08/2011 at 8:56 p.m. 2 Comments

  Alf Holmberg, described as a "distance runner and biggest name in Tennessee track before the Chuck Rohe era" by Hall of Fame journalist Marvin West, died this past Sunday morning in Stockholm, Sweden, at age 83.

• Ex-Vol football letterman Bob Zvolerin dies at 71 Published 11/06/2011 at 10:35 p.m. 5 Comments

  Bob Zvolerin, who lettered at Tennessee in 1962-63 and started at left tackle in 1963, died Nov. 3, at his home in Cleveland, Tenn. He was 71.

• George Mooney was voice for fans from 1952 to 1967 Published 10/15/2011 at 12:28 a.m. 1 Comment

  Longtime University of Tennessee football fans remember sitting by their radios listening to George Mooney bringing home the story of the Vols.

• Bob Davis, who played on 1951 national championship team, dies at 81 Published 10/03/2011 at 3:11 p.m. 8 Comments

  Bob Davis, who mastered the intricate single-wing center snaps during his career at the University of Tennessee and a member of the national championship team in 1951, died Sunday in Knoxville. He was 81.

• Ex-Vol tight end John Whitfield Canale dies at 69 Published 09/25/2011 at 10:28 p.m. 6 Comments

  John Whitfield "Whit" Canale, a University of Tennessee letter winner in 1962 and 1964, died on Sept. 17 in Memphis, at St. Francis Hospital. He was 69.

• Ex-Vol Frank Kolinsky dies at age 76 Published 05/10/2011 at 12:12 a.m. 2 Comments

  Frank Kolinsky, a University of Tennessee offensive tackle from 1955-57, died early Monday at Mercy Medical Center-St. Mary's in Knoxville. He was 76.

• Former UT football player Jerry Gowdy dies at 71 Published 04/19/2011 at 1:34 p.m. 3 Comments

  Jerry Gowdy, who lettered as an end on Tennessee football teams in 1962 and 1963 under coaches Bowden Wyatt and Jim McDonald, died April 14 in Ridgeville, S.C. He was 71.

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