by design | Feb 12, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
Three SEC Championship Seasons to Remember By Tom Mattingly The 2024 season marks the 85th anniversary of the 10-1 1939 team, the 55th anniversary of the 9-2 1969 team, and the 35th anniversary of the 11-1 1989 team, champions all. Each of these “Boys of Fall” teams...
by design | Feb 5, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
The integral 1964-65 recruiting class By Tom Mattingly Looking back, it’s hard to believe that it has been 60 years since Tennessee football coaches were signing one of the best football recruiting classes in the school’s history. The year was 1964. This was Doug...
by design | Jan 29, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
Giving new meaning to the term ‘birds-eye view’ By Tom Mattingly In December 1966, the Basketball Vols opened the William B. Stokely Athletics Center, an enlarged version of the Armory-Fieldhouse on campus. Seating capacity went from 7,500 in the Armory to...
by design | Jan 22, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
A true All-American football player By Tom Mattingly When I once wrote a column asking Vol fans to name the legendary figures over the course of Tennessee football history, someone wrote in and nominated George Cafego, the Vol tailback from 1937-39 and assistant coach...
by design | Jan 15, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
468 pages cover-to-cover By Tom Mattingly The “2023 University of Tennessee Record Book,” another in a line of documents once historically referenced as a “Football Media Guide” or a “Football Brochure,” covers 468 pages and offers answers to nearly any question the...
by design | Jan 8, 2024 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘A unique glow, a unique ambience’ By Tom Mattingly In this business, it has always been fascinating to look at some of the game films (most now on videotape) and photos from Tennessee home games from the 1950s into the early 1970s, almost all played in...
