<P> The Tennessee Volunteers football team represents the University of Tennessee in American football . </P> <P> Tennessee's football program began in 1891, organized in large part by Henry Denlinger, a teacher who had played at Princeton . The team's first game, a loss to Sewanee, was played on November 21, 1891 . The program's first win did not come until October 25, 1892, when they defeated Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee, by a score of 25--0 . Tennessee competed in their first 5 seasons without a coach . </P> <P> In October 1894, the Athletic Association had resolved to drop varsity football and look forward to baseball in the spring of 1895 . After the humiliating 1893 season with two wins and four imposing defeats, only two athletes willing to admit they had played on the 1893 team returned to campus in 1894 . To complicate matters further, the practice field, located just west of the main entrance to the Hill, was being graded and improved . </P>

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