by design | Jan 23, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
A Triumphant Trip By Tom Mattingly When Tennessee squared off against New York University on Dec. 5, 1931, at Yankee Stadium, it may not have been an officially recognized bowl game (the NCAA doesn’t count this and other Depression-era bowl games in all-time records),...
by design | Jan 16, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘The best football broadcast ever heard in this town’ By Tom Mattingly Watching the barrage of televised college football bowl games over New Year’s weekend brought back memories of those long-ago days there were four games on the tube on New Year’s Day, the Cotton...
by design | Jan 3, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
Spring practice started when? By Tom Mattingly In the spring of 1936, Maj. Robert R. Neyland had returned to Knoxville looking to pick up where he had left off in his first tenure as head coach of the University of Tennessee football team (1926-34). He had...
by design | Dec 27, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘They’ll probably think he wasn’t bad for his time’ By Tom Mattingly When word arrived December 15 that former Vol wide receiver Johnny Mills had died at age 77, memories of vintage times in Carter County and his football career at the University of Tennessee...
by design | Dec 19, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
When things are unsettled at quarterback By Tom Mattingly The 1971 Tennessee football season offered Vol fans a crash course in what can happen when things are unsettled at quarterback. From 1965 on, the quarterback position was in good hands: Charlie Fulton...
by design | Dec 12, 2022 | Columnist, Mattingly
When 10 wins aren’t enough By Tom Mattingly At the end of each season, football fans each have their own way of measuring the success or failure of each campaign. Very often, even the most successful season has an asterisk (*) or asterisks (**) attached to it. The...
