In October 1987, the UT Athletics Department announced that construction of a new practice facility would begin in January 1988 on Upper Hudson Field. In order to provide the necessary room, the practice bubble was moved to the intramural playing field next to the Student Aquatic Center. Opened July 15, 1989 (and nicknamed by the … Continued

The Stokely Family Media Room is adjacent to the Wolf-Kaplan Hospitality Center. The media center connects to the Peyton Manning Locker Room Complex and provides a convenient and professional setting for the football team’s postgame press conference, as well as coach and student-athlete interviews. The Media Center is named in honor of longtime Tennessee athletics … Continued

The football locker room in the Neyland-Thompson Sports Center was named for Tommy Bronson and Bill Johnson in August 2007. It was replaced by the Anderson Training Center’s 7,000-foot locker room, which opened in 2012. As members of the 1955–57 teams, Bronson and Johnson helped lead UT to a 24-7-1 record, a 3-0 record against … Continued

In spring 2014 the Athletics Department and the Student Government Association initiated a plan to name the football game student section in Neyland Stadium. Coach Butch Jones is credited with the idea of naming the section. The Athletics Department created a Name Our Home website, where names could be suggested. The top five nominees were … Continued

In 1989, when Neyland-Thompson was completed, it held a 70-yard All Pro football field with a 10-yard end zone. The field, beneath a 65-foot ceiling, also included a baseball infield with inlaid bases and a pitcher’s mound. The indoor practice field was named in honor of Chattanooga businessman Robert E. White, who donated $1 million … Continued

The Phase II renovation of Neyland Stadium began in November 2009 and was completed for fall 2010. It turned the west upper deck (rows RR-WW) into eighteen hundred sideline chair-back seating (with cup holders) and extended legroom accessed from the Tennessee Terrace. The terrace was an indoor, climate-controlled concourse directly behind the seats that offered … Continued

The School of Architecture received and accepted an invitation from the Nicaraguan government in January 1974 to assist in reconstructing the earthquake-stricken city of Managua. The 1972 two-and-one-half-hour earthquake measuring 6.25 on the Richter scale had left ten thousand Nicaraguans dead and half of its residents homeless. The architecture school sent 10 fourth-year design students, … Continued

At the 2010 season-opening football game (September 4) against UT at Martin, the Athletics Department initiated a fan text-messaging system to assist in providing quick response to incidents within the stadium. Developed in conjunction with In Stadium Solutions (ISS), the system allowed text messages to be made from a personal cell phone to “Vols” giving … Continued

Professor Nicholson, son of Alfred Osborne Pope Nicholson, a prominent Middle Tennessee Democratic leader, newspaper editor, lawyer, judge and US senator, was appointed the first professor of agriculture on December 4, 1869. After graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1855, he became associate editor of the Washington Union, of which his father was … Continued

For many years, a location between the Alumni Memorial Building and Stadium Drive was painted with the intertwined UT logo for homecoming celebrations and other special events. In January 1966 the emblem was permanently set in orange and white concrete. Spectators without tickets could look into the stadium from the logo location—and many did. The … Continued