TSSAA Rewind: 1972 Tennessee High team wins second consecutive state football title

There had been a previous state championship, and some national acclaim.Yet as Tennessee High School’s legendary squad entered the 1972 football season, the Vikings’ players approached their gauntlet with a twofold mindset: Play for the man on each side of you and “show them we can play a little football up here in Bristol.”Mission accomplished, in a superlative standard that has stood the test of time five decades henceforth.