1963 Tennessee Volunteers football team

1963 Tennessee Volunteers football
Conference Southeastern Conference
1963 record 5–5 (3–5 SEC)
Head coach Jim McDonald (1st season)
Home stadium Neyland Stadium
1963 SEC football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 7 Ole Miss $ 5 –0 –1  7 –1 –2
No. 5 Auburn 6 –1 –0  9 –2 –0
No. 8 Alabama 6 –2 –0  9 –2 –0
Mississippi State 4 –1 –2  7 –2 –2
LSU 4 –2 –0  7 –4 –0
Georgia Tech 4 –3 –0  7 –3 –0
Florida 3 –3 –1  6 –3 –1
Tennessee 3 –5 –0  5 –5 –0
Georgia 2 –4 –0  4 –5 –1
Vanderbilt 0 –5 –2  1 –7 –2
Kentucky 0 –5 –1  3 –6 –1
Tulane 0 –6 –1  1 –8 –1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1963 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously "Tennessee", "UT" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1963 college football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Jim McDonald, in his first and only year, and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of five wins and five losses (5–5 overall, 3–5 in the SEC).

Schedule

Date Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result Attendance
September 21 Richmond* Neyland Stadium • Knoxville, TN W 34–6    
September 28 Auburn Neyland Stadium • Knoxville, TN L 19–23    
October 5 Mississippi State Neyland Stadium • Knoxville, TN L 0–7    
October 12 Georgia Techdagger Neyland Stadium • Knoxville, TN L 7–23    
October 19 at No. 9 Alabama Legion Field • Birmingham, AL (Third Saturday in October) L 0–35   53,454
October 26 Chattanooga* Neyland Stadium • Knoxville, TN W 49–7    
November 9 at Tulane Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, LA W 26–0    
November 16 No. 3 Ole Miss Crump Stadium • Memphis, TN L 0–20    
November 23 at Kentucky McLean Stadium • Lexington, KY (Battle for the Barrel) W 19–0    
November 30 Vanderbilt Neyland Stadium • Knoxville, TN W 14–0    
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll.

Team players drafted into the NFL

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL Club
Dick EveyTackle114Chicago Bears
Bob ZvolerinTackle12158Washington Redskins
Ed BeardTackle14183San Francisco 49ers

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. ↑ "1964 NFL Draft". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
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