Stories

Recruitment Stories After being accepted at Furman University, Coach Rohe called me to tell me he was going to UT and asked me if I would like to go there instead. I said, “Yes,” thinking, “Does a wild bear sleep in the woods,” because, otherwise, I was going into the

Bob Barber 1963-67 ​I wish I could add more to the '66 Bear Story, but the fearless leader of that '66 XC team slept through most of the commotion.  Larry Kelly woke me up to tell me about it, so I did witness the broken screen door and the dent in the refrigerator after

​Most people do not know this story. I was a 27-year-old Air Force Captain instructing at the Officer Training School in San Antonio, TX. I had decided to leave the military in November 1967. My desire was to enroll in a master’s program and become a college track and cross country coach. In the

Growing up in the housing projects on the streets of Memphis, Tennessee, in 1967, I had never set foot on a college campus until coming to The University of Tennessee. Track was easy compared to academics. Emotionally in my new university environment I had a mental meltdown trying to excel at both. Simply, it