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Neyland and record
Through the 2010 season, the Tennessee Volunteers football team had compiled a record of 432 wins, 109 losses, and 17 ties at Neyland, for a winning percentage of. 789.

Neyland and for
Although Neyland Stadium in Knoxville was slightly closer to Nashville, it was deemed too big ( at over 102, 000 seats ) for an NFL team.
Neyland is flanked by the Thompson-Boling Arena, which has broken several attendance records for college men's and women's basketball.
Neyland was a small fishing village in the parish of Llanstadwell, but in 1856 it became the site for the western terminus of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Western Railway with a transatlantic terminal for the largest ships of the time.
Neyland was partially reprieved because silting of Goodwick harbour restricted its use, and for a little over one hundred years, Neyland was a busy rail and sea port.
The University of Tennessee's Neyland Stadium in Knoxville was three hours east of Nashville, but was deemed too large ( at 102, 000 seats ) for an NFL team.
Bobby Dodd was a quarterback for the Tennessee Volunteers football team from 1928 to 1930, playing under legendary coach Robert Neyland.
The stadium is named for University of Tennessee football coach Robert Neyland ( 1892 – 1962 ).
Neyland, the man credited with making the Vols a national football power, coached the team from 1926 – 1952, with two interruptions for military service.
On April 8, 2009, it was announced that Neyland Stadium was one of the 70 stadia named for the United States ' bid to either the 2018 or 2022 World Cup.
Attendance has been recorded for Vol football games at Neyland Stadium since 1946.
Neyland is also used for local high school playoff games.
Neyland Stadium is occasionally used for concerts, political rallies, and religious gatherings.
implemented the Neyland Stadium Master Plan, a long-term strategy for expanding, renovating, and maintaining the stadium.
The name " Rocky Top " is sometimes used as a nickname for East Tennessee, the city of Knoxville, and the University of Tennessee ( especially its two major athletic venues, Neyland Stadium and the Thompson-Boling Arena ).
Atkins originally went to Tennessee on a basketball scholarship, but once football coach General Robert R. Neyland saw his combination of size and agility, he was recruited for the grid team.
Neyland is also famous for creating the seven " Game Maxims " of football that many coaches, on all levels, still use.
Neyland Stadium at the University of Tennessee is not only named for " The General ", but was designed by him.
Shortly before his death, Neyland drew up plans for a major expansion and renovation to the Vols ' home stadium, Shields-Watkins Field.
UT renamed the stadium Neyland Stadium in his honor before the 1962 season, and the plans he drew up were so far ahead of their time that they have been used as the basis for every major expansion since then.
Neyland attended Burleson Junior College in his home town of Greenville, Texas for a year and then transferred to Texas A & M playing football a year before receiving an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he starred as a football lineman and baseball pitcher and was the academy boxing champion.
Several months prior to his death, Neyland began working on a plan for supporters of UT athletic teams to show their interest in UT's academic programs by offering scholarships to attract outstanding student scholars to the University.

Neyland and most
Neyland Stadium has hosted several NFL exhibition games, most recently in 1995, when the Washington Redskins played the Houston Oilers.
One of Neyland Stadium's most notable non-sporting events took place in May 1970, when the stadium hosted the Billy Graham Crusade, with President Richard Nixon as a guest speaker.
Although the T formation is used almost exclusively at Tennessee home games in Neyland Stadium, it has been done at other venues, most notably at the 1986 and 1991 Sugar Bowl.

Neyland and wins
At the end of his tenure at Tennessee, Fulmer had the second-highest number of wins of any head coach in Tennessee history, just 21 behind legendary coach Robert Neyland.

Neyland and Tennessee
" — This quote is often attributed to Hayes, but some contend General Robert Neyland of the University of Tennessee first said it.
These include the 1925 Rose Bowl, featuring Knute Rockne's Notre Dame team against “ Pop ” Warner ’ s Stanford team ; the 1926 Rose Bowl, featuring Alabama Crimson Tide ’ s win over Washington ( the first southeastern team to beat a northern team ); and the 1940 Rose Bowl, featuring Howard Jones ’ USC Trojans against Bob Neyland ’ s Tennessee Volunteers.
During the 1995 NFL Preseason, the Houston Oilers faced the Washington Redskins in an exhibition game at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The University of Tennessee retired White's jersey at a halftime presentation on October 1, 2005 during their game against the University of Mississippi, the third such retirement in the modern era of football at the school ; a commemorative sign was also unveiled in the south end of Neyland Stadium.
After his retirement from active broadcasting he moved to Knoxville, Tennessee to an apartment across the Tennessee River from the University of Tennessee campus from which he had a view of Neyland Stadium, the Volunteers ' home field, and wrote an autobiographical memoir entitled Hello Everybody, I'm Lindsey Nelson, his landmark opening phrase.
Neyland Stadium is a sports stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
In 2004, Sports Illustrated ranked Neyland Stadium, the University of Tennessee campus, and the surrounding Knoxville area, as the best college football weekend experience.
The largest crowd ever recorded at Neyland was 109, 061 on September 18, 2004, when Tennessee defeated Florida, 30 – 28.
Phase III of the master plan, completed in 2010 at a cost of $ 83 million, included the construction of the West Club seats, improvements to the sky box and press center, renovations to the west top level concourse, the addition of elevators and stairwells to the west side, the creation of the Gate 21 Plaza and other entry plazas, the construction of the Tennessee Terrace, and the installation of a statue of General Neyland, created by sculptor Blair Buswell, to the west entrance.
With its good-natured regional references to a carefree lifestyle, the singing of " Rocky Top " by Tennessee college students and alumni at sports venues such as Neyland Stadium is well established.
He played college football at the University of Tennessee under legendary head coach Robert Neyland.
Wanting to continue coaching, Captain Neyland was appointed Professor of Military Science at the University of Tennessee.
It is the tenth largest stadium in the NCAA and the fourth largest in the Southeastern Conference, behind Neyland Stadium at Tennessee, Bryant-Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama, and Sanford Stadium at Georgia.
The mammoth octagonal building lies just northwest of the Tennessee River, and just southwest of Neyland Stadium.

Neyland and Volunteers
During his time as the Volunteers ' head basketball coach, he also worked as the head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers baseball team from 1938 to 1942, and as an assistant football coach for the Tennessee Volunteers football team under head coaches Robert Neyland and John Barnhill from 1938 to 1946.

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