Tim Peeler: How NC A&M beat Tennessee in 1911, the program's last win over the Vols

The week-and-a-half leading up to 1911 football game against Tennessee might have been the most devasting 10 days in the first 50 years of athletics at the school then known as the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Maybe even ever. The Farmers of head coach Eddie Greene had just pulled off an impressive 6-0 home upset of Bucknell College, a game played on campus at what was then called the New Athletic Field, later known as Riddick Stadium, with a remarkable 2,500 spectators sitting on the wooden bleachers. It was a game played in the middle of the North Carolina State Fair, a traffic-snarling tradition that has fallen by the wayside over the last 20 years as the annual fair has grown exponentially, the Carter-Finley Stadium game-day experience has extended from sunup to sundown and available fall calendar entries now include the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes.