The men’s team played its first intercollegiate game at home on December 16, 1909, against Kentucky Central University, Danville, Kentucky (now Centre College), in the YMCA gym on the UT campus. The small, box-like gym was packed with two hundred spectators. The Vols won 33-31. The men’s game was preceded by a women’s game (UT vs. Central High School, won by the Lady Bobcats 21-1) because the train bearing the Kentucky Central team was more than an hour late.