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1961 Tennessee Volunteers football team

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1961 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 1 Alabama + 7 0 0 11 0 0
No. 4 LSU + 6 0 0 10 1 0
No. 5 Ole Miss 5 1 0 9 2 0
No. 13 Georgia Tech 4 3 0 7 4 0
Tennessee 4 3 0 6 4 0
Florida 3 3 0 4 5 1
Auburn 3 4 0 6 4 0
Kentucky 2 4 0 5 5 0
Georgia 2 5 0 3 7 0
Mississippi State 1 5 0 5 5 0
Tulane 1 5 0 2 8 0
Vanderbilt 1 6 0 2 8 0
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1961 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously "Tennessee", "UT" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1961 college football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Bowden Wyatt, in his seventh year, and played their home games at Shields-Watkins Field in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of six wins and four losses (6–4 overall, 4–3 in the SEC).

Schedule

September 30Auburn

L 21–24  October 7Mississippi Statedagger

  • Shields-Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, TN

W 17–3  October 14Tulsa*

  • Shields-Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, TN

W 52–6  October 21at No. 5 Alabama

ABCL 3–3448,000 October 28Chattanooga*

  • Shields-Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, TN

W 20–7  November 4at North Carolina*

L 21–22  November 11No. 9 Georgia Tech

  • Shields-Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, TN

W 10–6  November 18No. 6 Ole Miss

L 10–24  November 25at Kentucky

W 26–16  December 2Vanderbilt

  • Shields-Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, TN

W 41–7 

Template:CFB Schedule End

Team players drafted into the NFL

Player Position Round Pick NFL Club
Glenn Glass Halfback 17 Chicago Bears

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. 123
  2. ^ 2011 Tennessee Football Record Book, p. 100
  3. ^ "1962 NFL Draft". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 8, 2012.