re: TSIO Some cool images/programs through the years

And yes, we need to bring back the home jerseys. Someone get on that

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There are a couple of UGA fans that come to the DSOR in AU or Athens and put up for display programs from the old games. They have quite a few

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I love old programs especially from the 60s and earlier - they had a lot creativity back then and you never knew what you'd get. I wish some of the programs we did today would have a touch of that creativity.

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Same, Prof 50% of my teams holding up for me

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Good to hear. Hell I can't even rely on the Titans or any of other Pro Sports in TN even the Smokies are sucking this year. So no team is holding for me but Peyton gave us a boost yesterday.

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Generally agreed, that said, it's nice when it's rare or when only a few teams do it.

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I agree with you there - it should be for very special rivalries and strongly dependent on those traditions, imo. I'd love to see Tennessee and Bama fans unite on this and push our ADs into it. It needs to be done and was always a big part of this rivalry.

Fans want this and we need both sides to pressure them into doing the right thing instead of being petty.

Alabama Program 1938 (this one is very unusual as the colors are quite odd).

I found this funny and a very apt description of both Bammers and Vols:

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I think those colors are pretty close to what we wore back then. I know our pants used to be that tan color.


I would be ok with going back to both teams using the home jerseys if UT went back to the lighter orange for a greater contrast. It seems to me like they have went to a darker orange over the years. I may be wrong, but that's just what it seems like to me.

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While we did have black Jerseys in 1903 (black with an orange T in the center and light tan pads on the arms) and 1914 (black with orange stripes down the sleeve and tan pants), I've never seen anything that indicates we ever had black pants.

As for our color... it's not so much that it's changed but it's very difficult to photograph - the same jersey will photograph several shades of orange depending on the lighting or what the orange is nearby. The color also varies with the materials used and has to be corrected for. It's very difficult to get right. Our current orange jerseys are great - took Adidas years to get the color just right and they're much brighter not darker in shade tho.

The color itself has a Pantone number: PMS 151. And that hasn't changed at all through the years.

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would like to see the crimosn and orange home jersies again.

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These rules all go back to the 50's and 60's when TV was black and white. Orange and Crimson would both look gray to the viewer. So, it was decided that the road team must wear white.

That's the blood of the cadet corps, from 1865, not the color of some daisy on a hill (and it's the wrong damn color at that - no flower blooms that color).

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That's the blood of the cadet corps, from 1865, not the color of some daisy on a hill (and it's the wrong damn color at that - no flower blooms that color).

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A cadet corps in 1865? How cute. UT's Dragoons, every one of them, fought in the Mexican-American War. Prior to then UT students served with Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. Neither your state nor your school would exist without Tennessee and that includes the direct involvement UT's Dragoons. Our student soldiers both gave and shed blood so your cadets could exist.

And that COLOR you equate to shite is the color that symbolizes those Volunteers - soldiers, many of them students, who volunteered for service, fought and died and made your state and school possible.

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The military program at the University of Tennessee predates that of any other state university in the country. In 1844, Professor Albert Lea Miller, a West Point graduate, organized an Infantry Company, and a uniform for the cadets was adopted. This Dragoon uniform soon became quite famous. While Tennessee had been the Volunteer State since the War of 1812, when Andrew Jackson brought 1,500 volunteers intending to fight in the Battle of New Orleans, it wasn’t until the Mexican-American War that the name really took hold. When Tennessee Governor Aaron Brown issued a call for 2,800 troops to fight in the war, 30,000 Tennesseeans volunteered, including UT’s Dragoons. Their uniform, only slightly modified, is still worn today by color guards at home football games.

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Although the university had always been a quasi-military one from its earliest beginnings we have even been a fully functioning garrison.

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When the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, reopened after the Civil War, a system of military discipline was adapted. A code of military regulations was drawn up and a copy was provided to each student when he matriculated. The entire institution was placed under regular United States Military Academy discipline. The student body was organized into a battalion of cadets, which consisted of four companies fully officered, armed and equipped under the command of the commandant and his staff of cadet officers. UT Knoxville remained as a military garrison for a period of six years, until 1877

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