Another highlight would have been the Tennessee game we lost in 1959, fourteen-thirteen to Tennessee. Ran them all over the field and still they beat us in points. That was the controversial Billy Cannon two-point conversion that they say we didn't get, which we still believe we got. That would have been our nineteenth straight win, and we probably would have gone undefeated throughout the rest of that year and been national champions two years in a row. The highlight of that game was not so much the game itself; when we came back home there were ten thousand people who were waiting for us at the airport after we lost that game. That was one of the greatest thrills in my life. People coming and wish you well after a big loss. It's hard to beat.
-- Gus Kinchen, interviewed by Scott Purdy, 1993