[12] Tennessee's right guard S. D. Bayer drew a 33-yard, half the distance to the goal penalty for slugging, and was ejected by umpire Bradley Walker.

The chesty Tennessee quarterback sent the oval whizzing for a distance of thirty-five yards and Carroll gathered in the ball near his goal line, when he hurried beneath the posts with all the speed at his command.

The year's only unanimous All-Southern Graham Vowell scored Tennessee's winning touchdown.

[16] UT had suspended their football program for World War I, and the game was played by Student Army Training Corps.

Vanderbilt played the Tennessee Volunteers on a soggy Old Dudley Field, winning by a score of 14 to 0.

In the second, after the Commodores obtained good field position from the punt returns of Rupert Smith, Kuhn had a 30 or 35-yard touchdown run utilizing Lynn Bomar as a lead blocker.

At one point in the second half, Freddie "Froggie" Meiers carried an onside kick over for a touchdown, but it was called back.

[21] The Tennessee backs were repeatedly thrown for no gain or losses all game, and steady improvement from the Commodore eleven had been noticed.

The eighteenth meeting between Vanderbilt and Tennessee saw a packed stadium, the largest crowd of the season for Shields–Watkins Field.

Tennessee was out for revenge,[25] as they had only beaten the Commodores twice, and Vanderbilt was ahead in points scored in the series by a vast margin, 347 to 53.

Both teams had last week rested their starters, Vanderbilt winning over Mercer, and Tennessee beating Mississippi by a score of 49 to 0.

Later in the fourth, Vanderbilt intercepted a Tennessee pass in Volunteer territory, leading to a chance to score.

[24][28] Lynn Bomar, Scotty Neill, Gil Reese, and Fatty Lawrence were mentioned as the players of the game for the Commodores, and Campbell was cited as the star for the Volunteers.

[29] The Nashville Banner said Lawrence had been "in there doing a man's job blocking a kick and tackling with the deadliness of a tiger unleashed in a cave of lions.

The week before the Tennessee game, Vanderbilt suffered a scoreless tie with Mississippi A&M in the rain.

With a 51–7 victory over the Tennessee Volunteers the next week, the Commodores regained "all the power and smoothness with which it had started the 1923 season.

"[30] Ralph McGill reflected the sentiment, "All the pent-up fury of misunderstanding and disappointment burst out like a flood.

[32] Lynn Bomar, Alf Sharpe, and Bob Rives on defense helped hold the Volunteers to only 7.

Robert Neyland was hired to coach Tennessee in 1926 by Nathan Dougherty with the explicit goal to "even the score with Vanderbilt."

Dan McGugin's Commodores led 7–0 until a late Dick Dodson run tied the score.

[34] Clyde Roberts outrushed Beattie Feathers as the SoCon champion Vols tied the Commodores 0–0.

The game's lone scoring play was a catch by Feathers, called out of bounds in front of the Vanderbilt bench.

[35] This would be Vandy's last win over the Volunteers in the 20th century, beginning a 22-game losing streak which wouldn't end until 2005.

[36] Tennessee defeated Vanderbilt by a score of 29–25 in Johnny Majors' last game as head coach of the Vols.

[38][39] The Vols dominated the Commodores en route to a 65–0 blowout win, the largest margin of victory by the Volunteers in the history of the rivalry.

[41] Vandy overcame a 21–6 fourth quarter deficit thanks largely to the play of quarterback Greg Zolman but the Commodores came up short in a 28–26 loss.

[42] The Southeastern Conference's least penalized team that year, the Vols committed a season-high 14 penalties for 135 yards and also had three turnovers.

The win also marked Vanderbilt's first victory over Tennessee on the Volunteers' home field in Knoxville since 1975.

[44] Cutler's final play in college was the game-winning (and streak-ending) touchdown pass to teammate Earl Bennett against Tennessee.

Tennessee ended a three-game losing streak to Vanderbilt 28–10 on a stormy evening in Knoxville.