In 1902 UT’s small military band played during the game against Sewanee. UT won 6-0. The band may have performed at earlier games, but this is the first documented appearance.

The 1903 UT yearbook (Volunteer) provides the first evidence of any basketball team representing the university in intercollegiate competition. The team was the 12-member varsity women’s basketball team. A men’s varsity basketball team was organized in 1909 with Nathan W. Dougherty, who had starred in football, as captain.

The first UT Band Camp was held in the summer of 1961.

Senior engineering student Julius Gunn was recognized as the national Black Engineer—Student Leader at the Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference in February 2007. He was nominated for the award by the Rolls Royce Corporation, with which he had co-oped for three years. He was the first UT student to be nominated and was … Continued

Gustavus Robert Knabe was the first band director and joined the faculty of the university in 1871. He was also “Instructor in Singing.”

The Claxton Education Building, in service in 1957, was the first UT building to be totally air-conditioned. The first completely air-conditioned residence hall was Bill Gibbs Hall in 1962.

David Edgar, swimming, won both the 50- and 100-meter freestyle in the 1970 NCAA Championships. He did it again in 1971.

UT’s first airplane, acquired in 1965, was an Areo Commander, which seated six people and was acquired as a gift-purchase. The plane crashed in 1978.

In 1892 Dr. Charles W. Kent of UT was among representatives of eight southern colleges and universities (University of North Carolina, Wake Forest, Sewanee, University of Virginia, St. John’s College, Johns Hopkins, University of Alabama, and UT) that met in Richmond to form a Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The group elected J. B. Robertson of … Continued

In its last year as the Orange and White biweekly newspaper (1964–65), the student newspaper attained a long-sought goal: an All American rating from the Collegiate Press Association. David Hall was first term editor, and Linda Leftwich Newton was the second term editor.