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I don't think it's going out on a limb to identify the "Young Left-hander" holding the ball. That narrows it down to 65 - 67. When did we have stars on our helmets?
 
cyclejacket said:
I don't think it's going out on a limb to identify the "Young Left-hander" holding the ball. That narrows it down to 65 - 67. When did we have stars on our helmets?
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It may be the Gator Bowl game vs Texas Tech in 1965z. #75 is Tackle Lamar Wright
 
1965 vs Tennessee at Shields-Watkins Field (it wasn't yet called Neyland Stadium), #18 is indeed TYLH & #75 is Lamar Wright. The shot is from the south looking north, before the north end (with its damned cannon) was enclosed, the double decking all around, etc. Even in that open configuration, it was the loudest place we played - with an instant "0 to 10" volume switch.

Tells:
(1) In that era, we played in Knoxville in odd-numbered years. It's not 1967 as GT used the gold-white-gold scheme in 1967 like the 1972-1973 Fulcher teams.

(2) The OPP's unis are definitely UT in that era. Look closely at the UT player's helmet & you can see a small black cross on the orange T in memory of the three UT assistant coaches - Bill Majors, Bob Jones & Charlie Rash - killed in a railway crossing accident in West Knoxville on 18 October 1965. The GT game was in Knoxville on 6 November.

(3) It's not Donnie Anderson's Texas Tech Gator Bowl team from 1965. TT wore black helmets w/red TT logos & red jerseys in that game. Lenny Snow out-ran Anderson, but that's a whole 'nother thread.

ADDED: Here's your sign.... Looks like TT's A-A RB Anderson hurlin' in the Jacksonville heat... and that's GT's Randall Edmunds #50

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ElCidBUZZingFAN said:
I did some digging and came across this.



That “double T” looks to be some sort of tribute.
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After the three UT coaches' VW Beetle got smashed on a Monday, UT had to play "Not yet running the Veer" Houston that Saturday in Knoxville. The black cross was added in their memory. Was at that game as the Dalton HS QB Club took the entire team (minus future GT DB Joe Bill Faith) to Knoxville in a long planned fill-the-stands promotion. Former Dalton All-State RB/DB & future UT All-American DB Jimmy Weatherford was our draw.

Link:
"The team also decided to wear black crosses over the “T’s” on the helmets as memorial tributes for the rest of the season."
 
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Kind of an oh-by-the way.... #81 for UT was Paul Naumoff.... as a SR in '66 he switched to LB (and #50) & became a 1st team consensus A-A before playing LB for the Detroit Lions from 1967-1978.
 
Great story. Reggie Ball should take some solace in the fact that no less than Kenny Stabler had the same brain fart.
 
GT 1950 said:
I don't know but I originally thought #18 was Lothridge and the opponent was Tennessee in their orange jerseys. It must be at Tennessee so maybe later than Billy's time. So, I would have guessed Kim King's first year as a starter?
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Billy was a righty.... Kim a lefty.
 
gtleviathan said:
Ditto. How many years did we have this? Was there a story behind it?
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Really just for '65 & maybe '66, the only two years Dodd's teams wore white helmets.

IIRC, it was Dodd's understated reward for big plays..... compared to what Howdy Dooley did at the cesspool, i.e., covering helmets in itty-bitty stars.
 
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