In March 1913 the Vols played the Philadelphia Athletics at Chilhowee Park and lost to them by a score of 9 to 2. On April 8, 1915, the Vols played the New York Giants and lost by a score of 8 to 1. On April 4, 1916, the Vols played the Philadelphia Athletics. The Athletics … Continued
The UT baseball team became the first team in SEC history to play games in Havana, Cuba, in December 2002, when it played three games against teams comprised of members of Cuba’s National Team in Havana. The Office of Foreign Assets Control in Washington, DC, gave the team approval to make the trip, and Congressman … Continued
See Lindsey Nelson Stadium.
The first baseball team was organized in 1875 as the Riverside Base Ball Club, although baseball had been played on campus at least since 1868. The first recorded intercollegiate men’s game was baseball, on April 3, 1875, when the Riverside Base Ball Club met and defeated a team from Athens by a score of 19 … Continued
On April 23, 1927, the Cate Motor Coach bus, in which the baseball team was being transported to Harrogate for a game with Lincoln Memorial University, overturned on the Tazewell Road near Maynardville. Two players received painful, but not serious, injuries (Ed Baxter: severe cut on the back of the head and other cuts; Lamar … Continued
Class teams played basketball in 1903, but intercollegiate games did not begin until 1909. The Vols won their first home game, a 55 to 16 decision over Tennessee School for the Deaf (TSD), on January 29, 1909.
Bill Brown resigned ten games into the 1986–87 basketball season (his second as head coach) at Sacramento State and stated he was suffering from chest pain and stress. He was hired March 27, 1987, as an assistant basketball coach at UT for recruiting. In early July he was arrested in Sacramento on charges of possession … Continued
In September 2010 UT announced that it had received an official letter of inquiry from the NCAA as the result of an NCAA investigation begun in April 2009. Part of the inquiry dealt with possible recruiting violations in the football program under Coach Lane Kiffen, but the focus of the letter was primarily on basketball … Continued
The basketball floor in Thompson-Boling Arena was named The Summitt in the January 2003 celebration following Coach Pat Head Summitt’s 800th win—a 76-57 victory over DePaul.
In 1946 UT forfeited a basketball game in Pennsylvania to Duquesne because the Duquesne team included an African American player.