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...every game on its ten-game schedule. But Southern California, the West's best, preferred to tackle Duke rather than Tennessee in its post-season Rose Bowl game. This year Coach Howard Jones's Trojans, twice tied, proved the West's best once more. Coach Bob Neyland's Tennessee Volunteers once more bowled over their ten opponents-this time letting no one cross their goal line. Southern California had to face the music-or face another ribbing from U. S. sportswriters. It invited terrible Tennessee to meet them in the Rose Bowl...
...Knoxville last week undefeated, untied Tennessee wound up its football season by beating Auburn, 7-to-0, for its tenth shutout of the year. Six hours later, Coach Bob Neyland received the phone call he has waited for for 13 years: from Pasadena, inviting his team to play in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Tennessee's opponent: Howard Jones's undefeated Southern California powerhouse (often referred to this season as "three of the four best teams on the West Coast"), which was held to a 0-to-0 tie by gallant...
Hearty congratulations to TIME for recalling its Sports Editor from the Antarctic coverage of ice hockey among the penguins, or wherever he has been during Major Bob Neyland's twelve years as Head Football Coach at the University of Tennessee...
...begin with, Tennessee has had winning football teams, studded with All-America and All-Southern players, bedecked with the scalps of the best teams in the country, so long under Neyland that it is rumored that the football extras of the Knoxville newspapers are made up before the games-leaving only the space for the score to be filled in when the results of the slaughter come over the wire. (Egad! And slight pause to cool...
...Major Bob's boys stacked up against Alabama last week, the largest sport crowd (40,000) in the history of Tennessee crammed into Knoxville's Shields-Watkins Stadium. In the Army, Major Neyland learned that it is wise to keep the enemy guessing as long as possible. Last week he showed that it works as well on a football field. Most scouted player on his team is George ("Bad News") Cafego, son of a Hungarian coal miner-a rugged, jimber-jawed quarterback who has the reputation of being able to do everything but blow the referee...