Tennessee Tech: Tech football recognizing 1959 OVC championship team as part of Legen

[News from the FCS]

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Over Tennessee Tech’s 98 seasons of intercollegiate football, the program has earned 12 championships – 10 in the Ohio Valley Conference, two in the long-defunct Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.As the sport of college football recognizes its 150th birthday, celebrating the first game played between Rutgers and Princeton on Nov. 6, 1869, and how the game has evolved and created so many legends, it has given every program around the country an opportunity to celebrate its own past.The word legends is appropriate as Tennessee Tech will celebrate one of its own legendary teams this weekend during the Golden Eagles’ contest against Austin Peay on Saturday afternoon as the OVC-champion 1959 Tech squad will be recognized during the game as part of Tech Football’s Legends Weekend.

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