Take a look at how campus has grown in the past 70 years and what’s coming next.
History and Tradition
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General Robert Neyland’s game maxims helped former football player Austin “Shifty” Shofner (’37) and several others escape a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.
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In just 10 minutes in August of 1967, Felice and Boudleaux Bryant wrote a song that would endure through generations to become the university’s unofficial fight song.
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There’s nothing like a verse of the alma mater to bring a tear to a Vol’s eye, but did you know it wasn’t written by an alumnus? Take a look …
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At 103 years old, Joyce Weaver Fowler (’33) has lived in two centuries and seen many changes in the world. Last fall, during the 100th anniversary of Homecoming, she returned …
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If a single image enshrines the memory of the late Avon Rollins Sr., it’s a Knoxville News Sentinel photo from May 1963 of his six-foot-four body lying on the sidewalk …
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On November 11, 1916—a date that hadn’t yet become Veterans Day—the undefeated Vols beat Vanderbilt 10–6 and “gladdened the hearts of hundreds of alumni who had journeyed back to the …
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People from Tennessee and beyond paid tribute to Pat Summitt with videos, photos, social media posts, flowers, letters, cartoons, and more. Take a look at all the ways fans chose …
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We asked readers of Torchbearer magazine to tell us their favorite campus concert memories. Take a look at what they told us!