Evening star., 1933-11-02
TENNESSEE ELEVEN
WINS At .%1 GAIT.
Vols Have Annexed g. Ti|tS,
Lost a and DeadIocked 5
Since 1926.

"HERE are any number OF
indications that George
i Washington's Colonials are
due for their supreme test
Saturday in Griffith Stadium, but
none is more convincing than the
truly brilliant record of the in
vading Tennessee Volunteers, a
record spanning the last seven
and One-half years which reflects
vast amount of credit to their
coach, Maj. Robert Neyland.
Unquestionably, the record of the
Neyland- d-coached warriors is the finest
any visiting eleven ever brought into
Washington. 1t is by far the best any
invading team of the past five years
has Sported. which takes in Alabama,
Iowa Oklahoma, Vanderbilt, Michigan
State. West Virginia, Bucknell, Navy
and others of major ranking Prob
ably no team in the entire United
States has a record comparable with
the Vols
Including games played thus far this
season, Tennessee since 1926 has won
64, lost and tied 5. In other words
the Volunteers have played winning
ball to the tune of .941 during the last
seven and one-half campaigns. If that
mark has been equaled by any other
college or university team in the Ma
tion. the boys who earn their living
compiling grid figures have been asleep.
| Volunteers record fails to find
anything of a synthetic nature.
They have played 9 or 10 games every
year and have never scheduled less than
fye major opponents. Only twice, in
1926 and 1927, did an Orange and
White eleven meet as few as five ma jor
foes while since 1924 the major game
order for Neyland teams has been either
seven or eight.
The caliber of Tennessees opponents
may be cleaned from a peruSal of the
list which shows such as Vanderbilt,
Alabama. Florida. Mississippi and Mis-
sissippi A. and NJ. Kentucky and North
Carolina among the teams consistently
scheduled. And to prove that they
could go North of the MaSon-D1xon
line quite successfully, the Vols in 1881
defeated a powerful New York Uni
yerSity team, 13 to 0.
About midway in this long string of
foot ball triumphs Tennessee went un-
defeated through "a successive games
which embraced three straight seasons
and parts Of two others. That partic-
ular streak was halted by Alabama S
Rose Bowl champions of 1890. And
then came another victory march that
carried through % games before Duke
stopped the Vols three weeks ago, 10
to =. Incidentally it was a team coached
by Wallace Wade that defeated Ten
nessee in 1880 and again this year.
TURTHER scrutiny shows Tennes-
sees record a remarkable one from
the standpoint of yielding touch
downs. Only "a touchdowns have been
chalked up against the Vols during
Coach Neyland's regime, or an average
OF less than five per season and less
than one-half per game.
While the Vols have suffered two de-
featS this season, there is no substantial
evidence to support a belief that they
are weaker than last year. when they
went through grueling 1O-game
schedule undefeated to share the South
ern championship with Auburn. Indeed.
their performance of last Saturday when
they came from behind to best pre-
viously unscored-on Florida outfit was
regarded by Southern experts as def
mite evidence that they are in every
respect as strong as in 1882.