Sports Parlor South
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
May 24, 2012, 10:29:44 AM
 104793 Posts in 8426 Topics by 407 Members
Latest Member: Rubes
If your Thick Skinned & like hard-nosed Sports and or Political conversation then this steel and barbed wire cage match type of forum is for you................

Click To Enter

Sports Parlor South  |  The Parlor  |  The Sports Parlor  |  Topic: Vol Legend Steve DeLong, RIP 0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. « previous next »
Pages: [1]
Author Topic: Vol Legend Steve DeLong, RIP  (Read 154 times)
One Man Gang
Sheep
**

Karma: +5/-195
Offline Offline

Posts: 206
« on: August 19, 2010, 07:25:40 PM »
http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2010/aug/19/steve-delong-1964-winner-outland-trophy-dies-67/?partner=RSS

Quote
DeLong made a name for himself through toughness at a time when Tennessee football fortunes were low. The Norfolk, Va., native played for three different head coaches in as many seasons, suiting up for Bowden Wyatt’s last year in 1962, Jim McDonald’s only stint in 1963 and for the first season under Doug Dickey in 1964.

On a Hallowed hill in Tennessee
Like Beacon shining bright
The stately walls of old U.T.
Rise glorious to the sight.

So here's to you old Tennessee,
Our Alma Mater true
We pledge in love and harmony
Our loyalty to you.
- The University of Tennessee Alma Mater
Logged
They are the arguments that kings have made for enslaving the people in all ages of the world. You will find that all the arguments in favor of king-craft were of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people, not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden. - A. Lincoln

"Obama was lying." - Gray 7/24/2010
plumbervol
OSVF Stalker
*

Karma: +23/-34
Offline Offline

Posts: 9014
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2010, 08:52:15 PM »
The DeLong family is an institution at UT..... Met him a few times and he was a great story teller...
Logged


That Which Doesn't Break Me, Only Makes Me Stronger
Reflections on 12 years of Catholic Education.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder".
badbob
Jethro
***

Karma: +1/-1
Offline Offline

Posts: 840
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2010, 02:38:26 AM »
 

I remember the LSU game (I think we tied - I was just a boy). To this day I can hear the echo, time and time again, of the public address announcer, "Tackle by DEE-LONG!"

He was an all-time GREAT.

God's blessings on his loved ones...

 
Logged
dare
rudedog
Administrator
Whine and Biscuit King
*

Karma: +6/-6
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 2770
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2010, 09:03:37 AM »
Steve Delong was my first favorite Tennessee Vols player.
I was 8 or 9 years old. He is the reason I became a Chargers fan
although they were never that good back then.

What Bob said. God's blessings.
Logged
Go Big Orange!
Gustoly
Legion of the Miserable
*****

Karma: +18/-39
Offline Offline

Posts: 3766
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2010, 09:18:07 AM »
Quote from: One Man Gang on August 19, 2010, 07:25:40 PM
http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2010/aug/19/steve-delong-1964-winner-outland-trophy-dies-67/?partner=RSS

On a Hallowed hill in Tennessee
Like Beacon shining bright
The stately walls of old U.T.
Rise glorious to the sight.

So here's to you old Tennessee,
Our Alma Mater true
We pledge in love and harmony
Our loyalty to you.
- The University of Tennessee Alma Mater


Very appropriate OMG and thank you.  He has always been one of my favorite Vols of all time.
Logged
"A veteran is someone who, at some point in his or her life, wrote a blank check payable to the United States for up to and including their life".
Pages: [1]
Sports Parlor South  |  The Parlor  |  The Sports Parlor  |  Topic: Vol Legend Steve DeLong, RIP « previous next »
    Jump to:  


    Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.15 | SMF © 2006-2008, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
    The Paul Finebaum Radio Network

    SPS ADMIN & Webmaster-PV, ADMIN-OMG, PREZ&ADMIN-RUDEDOG, TBA RESIDENT MONK

    Copyright © Sports Parlor South 2010 All Rights Reserved