Third Saturday Memories - 1983

by Will Shelton on Oct 21, 2009 2:22 PM EDT in Tennessee Volunteer Football

As Joel mentioned in his post this morning, the only Volunteer solace between winless streaks of 11 and 9 years against the Tide came from 1982-1985, when the Vols won four in a row. They beat the Bear in his final season in 1982, and in year one post-Bear, Johnny Majors took an unranked Vol squad to Birmingham to face the #11 Tide. Alabama had a ten point second half lead before the Vols rallied to tie it, and with three minutes to play Munford, TN's own Johnnie Jones wrote his name into the legacy of The Third Saturday in October:

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Hardesty/Brown - This could be you.

RIP Steve McNair (1973 - 2009) Retire #9!
Member of the Committee to Keep Keith Bulluck.
Eric Berry for Heisman!!

by Pride of the Southland on Oct 21, 2009 4:45 PM EDT reply actions

While I doubt we get the 41-34 game with 900 yards of total offense

Yes, the 66 yarder to win would be outstanding

Rocky Top Talk

by Will Shelton on Oct 21, 2009 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions

Good Memories

What i remember most about that play was Tennessee QB Alan Cockrell called a timeout. . .

When Tennessee was walking up to the line, Bill Anderson (on the radio) said “This play could make or break the game right here.”

You could hear the Tennessee coaches in the press box near the Vol broadcast yelling when jones broke it!!!

by UTdan on Oct 22, 2009 12:46 AM EDT reply actions

Oh the memories

The UT-Bama game in Knoxville the year before this one was the first UT game I attended. A wide-eyed 8 yr old watched Da Bear go down in defeat.

We were also at Legion Field for the 83 game. My dad and I walked around the neighborhood and had some bbq before the game began. It was mildly safe back then.

Pound the Rock, proudly hating Bammer since ’82!

Ball, oskie, cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle... for this is the WINNING EDGE.

by pound the rock on Oct 22, 2009 8:28 AM EDT reply actions