1958 Tennessee Volunteers football team

1958 Tennessee Volunteers football
Conference Southeastern Conference
1958 record 4–6 (4–3 SEC)
Head coach Bowden Wyatt (4th season)
Home stadium Shields–Watkins Field
1958 SEC football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 1 LSU $ 6 –0 –0  11 –0 –0
No. 4 Auburn 6 –0 –1  9 –0 –1
No. 11 Ole Miss 4 –2 –0  9 –2 –0
Vanderbilt 2 –1 –3  5 –2 –3
Tennessee 4 –3 –0  4 –6 –0
Alabama 3 –4 –1  5 –4 –1
Kentucky 3 –4 –1  5 –4 –1
No. 14 Florida 2 –3 –1  6 –4 –1
Georgia Tech 2 –3 –1  5 –4 –1
Georgia 2 –4 –0  4 –6 –0
Tulane 1 –5 –0  3 –7 –0
Mississippi State 1 –6 –0  3 –6 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1958 Tennessee Volunteers (variously Tennessee, UT, or the Vols) represented the University of Tennessee in the 1958 college football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Bowden Wyatt, in his fourth year, and played their home games at Shields–Watkins Field in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of four wins and six losses (4–6 overall, 4–3 in the SEC).

Schedule

Date Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result Attendance
September 28 at No. 3 Auburn Legion Field • Birmingham, Alabama NBC L 0–13    
October 1 No. 11 Mississippi State Crump Stadium • Memphis, Tennessee W 13–8    
October 11 at Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta L 7–21    
October 18 Alabama Shields–Watkins Field • Knoxville, Tennessee (Third Saturday in October) W 14–7    
October 25 Florida State* Shields–Watkins Field • Knoxville, Tennessee L 0–10    
November 1 No. 17 North Carolina* Shields–Watkins Field • Knoxville, Tennessee L 7–21    
November 8 Chattanooga* Shields–Watkins Field • Knoxville, Tennessee L 6–14    
November 12 No. 7 Ole Missdagger Shields–Watkins Field • Knoxville, Tennessee W 18–16    
November 22 Kentucky Shields–Watkins Field • Knoxville, Tennessee (Battle for the Barrel) L 2–6    
November 29 at No. 15 Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee W 10–6    
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll.

Team players drafted into the NFL

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL Club
Carl SmithBack9101Detroit Lions
Lebron ShieldsTackle22256Detroit Lions

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. ↑ "1959 NFL Draft". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
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