Bama Week!!!

"You never know what a football player is made of until he plays against Alabama."
- General Bob Neyland

Seven Maxims of Football

During the 1930s, Neyland began having his teams recite seven sentences that he felt summarized everything it took to win a game. These came to be known as "the Seven Maxims of Football," or "the Seven Game Maxims." To this day, Vol teams still recite them in the locker room before every game. Let just hope they remember them as well as reciting them.

* The team that makes the fewest mistakes will win.
* Play for and make the breaks and when one comes your way - SCORE.
* If at first the game - or the breaks - go against you, don't let up... put on more steam.
* Protect our kickers, our QB, our lead and our ball game.
* Ball, oskie, cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle... for this is the WINNING EDGE.
* Press the kicking game. Here is where the breaks are made.
(Do we even have a Special Teams coach? Hire Me!)
* Carry the fight to our opponent and keep it there for 60 minutes.

For a more through history into this rivalry, go to The Third Saturday in October.
Go Vols!