November 7, 1959 at Knoxville

A sellout crowd of 47,000 was in place to see one of the rare games between LSU and Tennessee. LSU was the defending National Champion and had not given up a TD in the '59 season. It was the week after Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon's now-famous Halloween night punt return versus Ole Miss. LSU was riding a 19-game winning streak and was well aware of the Vols earlier conquest of Auburn, who at the time was on a 24-game win streak.

LSU dominated the early going, but lead only 7-0 at the half, coming off a 26-yard

TD run by Cannon. LSU missed a field goal in the 3^rd and the Vols needed a break. They got it on LSU's next possesion when Jim Cartwright intercpted LSU's Warren Rabb and scampered 59 yards to even up the score 7-7.

The Vols got another break on the following possession when Ken Sadler recovered a fumble at the LSU 29. Four plays later fullback Neyle Sollee scooted 14 yards fo the go-ahead score, 14-7.

Tennessee fumbled an LSU punt at its own 2 yard line and LSU punched in in to cut the lead to 14-13. LSU would try for the 2-pointer. Cannon took the pitch right and it appeared he would make it easily initially. The Vols' Bill Majors, Wayne Grubb and Charley Severance were there for the stop (although Billy Cannon swears to this day he made it in the endzone) and that was the game. Or so the popular mythology goes.

But there was more drama left to come. LSU blocked a Vol punt at the 29 but Cannon later fumbled at the Vol 16. Later in the period, LSU moved to the Vol 40 but Cartwright made his second interception of the day. Tennessee had to punt once more and avoided a rerun of Cannon's previous week's heroics versus Ole Miss. The Vols stopped LSU on 4^th down at mid-field as time ran out and the game was in hand.