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October 20th, 2009, 09:05 AM
10/20/28:
Coached by Bob Neyland in his third of an eventual 21 stellar seasons at Knoxville, the Tennessee Volunteers join the pantheon of big-time college football by upsetting Alabama, 15-13, at Tuscaloosa. Sophomore Gene McEver runs the opening kickoff back 98 yards for a Tennessee touchdown and the Vols use that impetus to spring a huge surprise on Wallace Wade’s highly regarded Crimson Tide, which had already won two national titles in the last four years (1925, ‘26).
B I R T H D A Y S
Mickey Mantle b. 1931
Juan Marichal b. 1937
Keith Hernandez b. 1953
Lee Roy Selmon b. 1954
Aaron Pryor b. 1955
Coached by Bob Neyland in his third of an eventual 21 stellar seasons at Knoxville, the Tennessee Volunteers join the pantheon of big-time college football by upsetting Alabama, 15-13, at Tuscaloosa. Sophomore Gene McEver runs the opening kickoff back 98 yards for a Tennessee touchdown and the Vols use that impetus to spring a huge surprise on Wallace Wade’s highly regarded Crimson Tide, which had already won two national titles in the last four years (1925, ‘26).
B I R T H D A Y S
Mickey Mantle b. 1931
Juan Marichal b. 1937
Keith Hernandez b. 1953
Lee Roy Selmon b. 1954
Aaron Pryor b. 1955