Third Saturday Memories - 1983
by Will on Oct 21, 2009 2:22 PM EDT
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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
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!!!
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.
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