In 1891 a UT team played Sewanee on a muddy Chattanooga field. UT lost 24-0. Since that was the only game played by UT that season, the winning percentage of UT’s first intercollegiate football team was .000.

UT and Alabama played to a 6-6 tie on November 28, 1901, in Birmingham, when the game was called because of darkness. The length of the game was due to spectators running onto the field after virtually every play, a practice that a local police squad was unable to stop. Then there was a delay … Continued

The first football game against an opponent whose team included African American players was the 1940 Rose Bowl game against Southern California.

UT first played Vanderbilt in 1892.

While the start of football games had been previously delayed due to inclement weather (most notably snow), the first game to be interrupted by weather was the 7:00 p.m., September 11, 2010, game (carried on ESPN2) against the University of Oregon Ducks. A severe thunderstorm with lightning in the area caused a 70-minute game delay … Continued

There was no official team in 1917 (or 1918) because of World War I, but 1917 was the first year season tickets were offered to the unofficial games.

Coach M. B. Banks first instituted spring practice in 1925.

In fall 2003 the position of football team chaplain was established, and the Reverend James Mitchell moved with his family to Knoxville from Bothell, Washington, where he had been national director for Pro Athletes Outreach, to take the position. He left UT to join the staff at Duke in 2008.

In 1926 Dr. E. T. Pearson, a recent addition to the infirmary staff, was named team doctor.

In the 1901 first game between Tennessee and Alabama (played in Birmingham), Tennessee’s players padded the back of one of the players, who was then used as a stepping-stone to jump over the line of scrimmage. The game, played before an estimated crowd of 2,500, ended in a 6-6 tie because of darkness. In its … Continued