Tennessee basketball’s history covers over a century, and Vols Wire will explore the history of the program by examining each head coaches’ tenure at UT.
This installment will examine the 1910-11 season when UT was coached by Andrew A. “Lex” Stone.
Stone came to Tennessee not just as the head basketball coach, but as the Athletics Director. This was a time when the Athletics Director coached every major sport, and Stone took charge of the football, basketball, baseball and track program in 1910.
Stone was the first head coach in Tennessee basketball history, as the inaugural Volunteer team before 1910 did not have a head coach, in a time when basketball was a relatively new sport. Stone was a standout football player at the southern football powerhouse Sewanee. He struggled leading the football team, and did not have much more success with the basketball program.
The Vols went 7-9 in Stone’s lone season in charge.