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Coaches

               CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

                        BY WINNING PERCENTAGE

GENERAL NEYLAND'S MAXIMS OF FOOTBALL

The Volunteer football team was without a coach from its beginning, in 1891, until 1899. During this period of time, the UT football team record was 12-11-0 (.522).

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

J.A. Pierce (1899-1900)
8-4-1 (.654)

George Kelly (1901)
3-3-2 (.500)

H.F. Fisher (1902-03)
10-7-0 (.588)

S.D. Crawford (1904)
3-5-1 (.389)

J.D. DePree (1905-06)
3-5-1 (.389)

George Levene (1907-09)
15-10-3 (.589)

Andrew Alex Stone (1910)
3-5-1 (.389)

Z.G. Clevenger (1911-15)
26-15-2 (.628)
SIAA Championship - 1914

John R. Bender (1916-20)
18-5-4 (.741)

M.B. Banks (1921-25)
27-15-3 (.633)

Robert R. Neyland (1926-34; '36-'40; '46-'52) (Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a Coach in 1956)
173-31-12
Southern Conference Championship - 1927
Southern Conference Championship - 1932
SEC Championship - 1938
SEC Championship - 1939
SEC Championship - 1940
SEC Championship - 1946
SEC Championship - 1951
National Championship - 1951

W. H. Britton (1935)
4-5-0 (.444)

John Barnhill (1941-45)
32-5-2 (.846)

Harvey Robinson (1953-54)
10-10-1 (.500)

Bowden Wyatt (1955-62)  (Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a Coach in 1997)
49-29-4 (.622)
SEC Championship - 1956

Jim McDonald (1963)
5-5-0 (.500)

Doug Dickey (1964-69)
46-15-4 (.738)
SEC Championship - 1967
SEC Championship - 1969

Bill Battle (1970-76)
59-22-2 (.723)

Johnny Majors (1977-92)
116-62-8 (.645)
SEC Championship - 1985
SEC Championship - 1989
SEC Championship - 1990

Phillip Fulmer (1992-2008)
152-52-0 (.745)
SEC Championship - 1997
SEC Championship - 1998
National Championship - 1998

Lane Kiffin (2009)
7-6 (.538)

Derek Dooley (2010 - Present)

6-7 (.461)

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1. 
   BY WINNING PERCENTAGE
   
   1. John Barnhill (.846)
   2. Robert Neyland (.829) 
   3. Phillip Fulmer (.745)
   4. John Bender (.741)
   5. Doug Dickey (.738)
   6. Bill Battle (.723)
   7. J.A. Pierce (.654)
   8. Johnny Majors (.645)
   9. M.B. Banks (.633)
   10. Z. G. Clevenger (.628)
   11. Bowden Wyatt (.622)
   12. George Levene (.589)
   13. H.F. Fisher (.588)

2. 14. Lane Kiffin (.538)
   15. Harvey Robinson (.500)
   15. Jim McDonald (.500)
   15. George Kelly (.500)

3. 18. Derek Dooley (.461)
   19. W.H. Britton (.444)
   20. Alex Stone (.389)
   21. S.D. Crawford (.389)
   22. J.D. DePree (.305)

 

GENERAL NEYLAND'S MAXIMS OF FOOTBALL

1.The team that makes the fewest mistakes will win.
2.Play for and make the breaks and when one comes your way - SCORE.
3.If at first the game - or the breaks - go against you, don't let up… put on more steam.
4.Protect our kickers, our QB, our lead and our ball game.
5.Ball, oskie, cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle… for this is the WINNING EDGE.
6.Press the kicking game. Here is where the breaks are made.
7.Carry the fight to our opponent and keep it there for 60 minutes.

 

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