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1937 Tennessee Volunteers football team

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1937 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
No. 4 Alabama $ 6 0 0 9 1 0
No. 8 LSU 5 1 0 9 2 0
Auburn 4 1 2 6 2 3
Vanderbilt 4 2 0 7 2 0
Mississippi State 3 2 0 5 4 1
Georgia Tech 3 2 1 6 3 1
Tennessee 4 3 0 6 3 1
Florida 3 4 0 4 7 0
Tulane 2 3 1 5 4 1
Georgia 1 2 2 6 3 2
Ole Miss 0 4 0 4 5 1
Kentucky 0 5 0 4 6 0
Sewanee 0 6 0 2 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1937 Tennessee Volunteers (variously Tennessee, UT, or the Vols) represented the University of Tennessee in the 1937 college football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Robert Neyland, in his eleventh year, and played their home games at Shields–Watkins Field in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of six wins, three losses and one tie (6–3–1 overall, 4–3 in the SEC). The team had the most ever punts per game of 13.9

Schedule

September 25Wake Forest*

W 32–0  October 2VPI*

  • Shields–Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, Tennessee

W 27–0  October 9at Duke*

T 0–0  October 16Alabama

L 7–14  October 23Sewanee

  • Shields–Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, Tennessee

W 32–0  October 30Georgia

  • Shields–Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, Tennessee

W 32–0  November 6at AuburnNo. 7

L 7–20  November 13Vanderbiltdagger

  • Shields–Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, Tennessee

L 7–13  November 25at Kentucky

W 13–0  December 4at Ole Miss

W 32–0 

Template:CFB Schedule End

References

General

  • 2011 Tennessee Football Record Book (PDF). Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Athletics Media Relations Office. 2011. Retrieved March 11, 2012.

Specific

  1. ^ 2011 Tennessee Football Record Book, p. 119