Tennessee’s football program began – unofficially – in 1891 when a faculty member named Henry Denlinger (who had played football at Princeton) organized a few fellows to compete against Sewanee near Thanksgiving of that year. The young football program did not win a game until the following year, when they... Continue reading

This new blog is devoted to the many great (and a few not-so-great) moments in the history of the University of Tennessee football program. For more than a hundred years students, fans, the entire state, and even the nation have watched as Tennessee built one of the great success stories... Continue reading