Top 10 Tennessee Volunteers football players of all time
9. Gene McEver, RB (1928-31)
McEver led the nation in scoring as a sophomore (130 points) and his 276 career points still has him inside the program’s top-ten list all-time. Tennessee was undefeated with McEver on the field, winning 27 games and tying in three. McEver would have been a strong candidate to win the Heisman Trophy, but the award was not handed out until 1935.
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Gene McEver, who wore No. 28 for the Vols, was a standout tailback that Robert Neyland called,“the best player I ever coached.”
McEver was the program’s first-ever All-American in 1929.
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