Kentucky at Tennessee

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  Evening star, November 23, 1952, page 63

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  Wildcats Strike Back For Two Touchdowns In Fourth Quarter KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Nov. o. A furious pack of Kentucky Wild cats staged a sensational fourth quarter rally today to score two touchdowns and battle a favored Tennessee football team to a 14–⁠14 tie. A topcoated crowd of 10000 braved freezing weather to see the aroused Kentucky team scrap back from a halftime 14-point deficit to knot the count. The battle was fought on a gridiron turned into a sloppy mess |by a record 22-inch snow which struck Knoxville yesterday. The field had been covered with a tar Ipaulin. but water seeped through the covering. It was all Tennessee in the first half and just the reverse in the second. Garry Coaches OFF Field. The jubilant Wildcats. who have never beaten a Tennessee team coached by Gen. Bob Neyland hoisted their coaches to their shoulders after the game and car |ried them to the dressing room. When Quarterback Herb Hunt punched over from the one-yard line midway in the fourth quarter for Wildcat six-pointer. it marked the first time Kentucky has been able to score on Tennessee in five years. Hunts score capped a 61-yard power drive and the longest Ken lucky march of the game. Bob Bassitt kicked the extra point. Kentucky then lined up on Ten nessee’s 45-yard line for the kick off. Bassitt tried an onside kick and recovered his own roller on the Tennessee 33. Pass Yields Touchdown. Quarterback Steve Meilinger and Fullback Allen Felch worked the ball to Tennessee’s II. Then on fourth down and with only two minutes left to play, Hunt nailed End Jim Proffitt with a pass in the end zone for a touchdown. Bassitt’s game-tying placement went through the uprights. Tennessee broke into the scoring column the first time it got the ball. Ray Byrd. subbing for the injured Andy Kozar at full back, knitted through center, cut to the right and sped IS yards for the touchdown. Vic Kilenik converted. Midway of the second quarter, Tennessee marched 76 yards for it’s second touchdown. Tailback Pat Shires plunged over from the / and Kolenik again converted. Ksnnseis. Ksntuesy ----------- 9 9 9 1dd-114 Kentucky scoring: Touchdowns-Hunt, Profitt. Conversions--Bassitt C2). Tennessee scoring: Touchdowns-Byrd, Shires. Conversions-Kolenik (2).

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Officially, Tennessee leads 85–⁠26–⁠9; as played, 84–⁠25–⁠9 in the 118 games on file; the official count covers all 121 meetings, counting the 73 since this game.