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1951 Tennessee Volunteers football team

American college football season

Field	Value
year	1951
team	Tennessee Volunteers
sport	football
conference	Southeastern Conference
short_conf	SEC
CoachRank	1
APRank	1
record	10–1
conf_record	5–0
head_coach	Robert Neyland
hc_year	20th
off_scheme	Single-wing
def_scheme	Multiple
stadium	Shields–Watkins Field
champion	Consensus national champion
SEC co-champion
bowl	[Sugar Bowl](1952-sugar-bowl)
bowl_result	L 13–28 vs. [Maryland](1951-maryland-terrapins-football-team)

SEC co-champion The 1951 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1951 college football season. In his next to last season as head coach, Robert Neyland led the Vols to their second consecutive national title and the fourth during his tenure. The 1951 title was also the first undisputed, at the time, national title in school history. Maryland has since been retroactively credited with the 1951 national championship by several selectors, including analyst Jeff Sagarin, as they went undefeated that year and beat Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl. At the time, the AP awarded the title before the bowl games were played. 1951 was also Neyland's ninth undefeated regular season in his career. The 1950 Tennessee team had gone 11–1, winning its last nine games and capping the season off with a victory over Texas in the Cotton Bowl. In 1951, The Vols put together a 10–0 regular season and were voted national champs by the AP Poll before the bowl season began, as was the convention at the time. In addition to AP, Tennessee was named national champion by NCAA-designated major selectors Litkenhous, United Press International (coaches poll), and Williamson, leading to a consensus national champion designation.

The game against Alabama on the Third Saturday in October that season was the first ever nationally televised game for both teams. The Vols were a dominant team in the regular season, winning their first nine games by a combined score of 338 to 61 before thwarting a spirited effort by in-state rival Vanderbilt in the last game of the regular season, 35–27.

Prominent players

The 1951 Tennessee Volunteers featured Hank Lauricella, that season's Heisman Trophy runner up, and Doug Atkins, a future member of both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. James Haslam Jr., a future business and civic leader in Knoxville, was a captain on the 1952 team, and a prominent member of the 1951 squad. The team featured six all-conference players: Lauricella, Atkins, Ted Daffer, John Michaels, Bill Pearman, and Bert Rechichar. Laricella, Daffer, and Pearman were also named All-Americans following the year.

Schedule

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References

(July 2017). "2017 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records". The National Collegiate Athletic Association.
(September 30, 1951). "Vols conquer Miss. State 14–0". The Courier-Journal.
(October 7, 1951). "Tennessee Vols stop Devils in 26–0 tilt". Rocky Mount Telegram.
(October 14, 1951). "Vols beat Mocs, 42–13, but losers steal show". The Knoxville News-Sentinel.
(October 21, 1951). "Vols beat back surging Tide, 27–13". The Birmingham News.
. (October 27, 1951). ["Vols Reach Half-Way Mark With TPI Eagles Here Today"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-knoxville-journal/142456805/). *[[The Knoxville Journal]]*.
(October 28, 1951). "Tennessee rolls up 68–0 win over Tech". Johnson City Press.
(November 4, 1951). "Tennessee flogs UNC, 27–0". The Times Dispatch.
(November 11, 1951). "Mighty Vols roll over W–L, 60–14". The Daily News Leader.
(November 18, 1951). "Tennessee Vols flay Ole Mississippi 46–21". The Daily Advertiser.
(November 25, 1951). "Vols stampede Kentucky, 28–0". Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
(December 2, 1951). "Tennessee scrambles over Vanderbilt by 35 to 27". The Herald-Sun.
(January 2, 1952). "Terps score 28–13 Sugar Bowl upset". The Daily Times.

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