re: When Tennessee loses to VT in Bristol

More on UT retired numbers:

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Tucker and the other three UT football players who died were all top athletes and even reached stardom under iconic UT football coach Gen. Robert “Bob” Neyland. Tucker, a graduate of Knoxville High School, wore jersey No. 61; Fuson, a native of Middlesboro, Ky., wore No. 62; Klarer, of Louisville, Ky., wore No. 49; and Nowling, from St. Petersburg, Fla., wore No. 32. During the war, after the four UT players died in action, the university retired the four jersey numbers. In later years, the numbers returned to the jersey rotation. In the 1980s, the UT Athletic Department permanently retired them. Tucker was one of the finest track stars of that era and became a lineman with UT in 1940.

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I got to meet UT All American (1937) Austin Shofner. He came to our Marine Corps Ball in 1989.

"Brigadier General Austin Conner Shofner was a United States Marine Corps officer who was captured during the Battle of Corregidor and then part of the only successful escape from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.[1] He joined the Philippine resistance, and later returned to command units of the Marine Corps in the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa." - wiki

He was quite a character.

Walt

UT '81