Remembering Johnny Majors — 1935 -2020
KNOXVILLE — Former Tennessee player and head coach Johnny Majors died Wednesday.
He was 85.
Majors was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1987. He was an All-American tailback for the Vols in 1956 and a two-time Southeastern Conference MVP in 1955-56.
The former Vol won the 1976 national championship as head coach at Pittsburgh before returning to Tennessee in the same capacity. Majors won the SEC championship as the Vols’ head coach in 1985, 1989 and 1990.
Before Majors’ passing, he joined the show “Tennessee Two-A-Days” to discuss his football career from his high school playing days until his retirement from coaching in 1996.
In a never released podcast, Majors discussed being recruited by General Robert Neyland and signing with the Vols, his time as head coach at Iowa State and his tough decision to leave a championship program at Pittsburgh to return to Tennessee and rebuild his alma mater.
The entire interview can be listened to here or below.
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