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1959 Tennessee Volunteers football team

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1959 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Georgia $ 7 0 0 10 1 0
No. 3 LSU 5 1 0 9 2 0
No. 2 Ole Miss # 5 1 0 10 1 0
No. 10 Alabama 4 1 2 7 2 2
Auburn 4 3 0 7 3 0
Vanderbilt 3 2 2 5 3 2
Georgia Tech 3 3 0 6 5 0
Tennessee 3 4 1 5 4 1
No. 19 Florida 2 4 0 5 4 1
Kentucky 1 6 0 4 6 0
Tulane 0 5 1 3 6 1
Mississippi State 0 7 0 2 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • # Berryman, Billingsley, Dunkel, Sagarin national champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1959 Tennessee Volunteers (variously "Tennessee", "UT" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1959 college football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Bowden Wyatt, in his fifth year, and played their home games at Shields-Watkins Field in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of five wins, four losses and one tie (5–4–1 overall, 3–4–1 in the SEC).

Schedule

September 26No. 3 Auburn

W 3–0  October 3Mississippi StateNo. 9

  • Shields-Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, TN

W 22–6  October 10No. 3 Georgia TechNo. 8

  • Shields-Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, TN

L 7–14  October 17at AlabamaNo. 14

T 7–7  October 24Chattanooga*

  • Shields-Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, TN

W 23–0  October 31at North Carolina*No. 20

W 29–7  November 7No. 1 LSUdaggerNo. 13

  • Shields-Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, TN

W 14–13  November 14Ole MissNo. 9

L 7–37  November 21at KentuckyNo. 20

L 0–20  November 28Vanderbilt

  • Shields-Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, TN

L 0–14 

Template:CFB Schedule End

Team players drafted into the NFL

Player Position Round Pick NFL Club
Jerry DeLucca Tackle Expansion Draft Dallas Cowboys

References

General

  • 2011 Tennessee Football Record Book (PDF). Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Athletics Media Relations Office. 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2012.

Specific

  1. ^ 2011 Tennessee Football Record Book, p. 122
  2. ^ 2011 Tennessee Football Record Book, p. 100
  3. ^ "1960 NFL Draft". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 8, 2012.