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JIM TARWATER

A BLOCK OF GRANITE OF A MAN, JIM TARWATER CAME OVER FROM SEVIER COUNTY TO PUT IN A FEW B SIDE SEASONS WITH THE POSSUMS.

A LEGENDARY SMOKY BEAR FOOTBALL PLAYER - AS WELL AS ALL-AROUND DRINKER, THE GREGARIOUS TARWATER SAW SOME ACTION AT INSIDE CENTER AND IN THE PACK, BUT NEVER ONE TO TAKE HIS TRAINING SERIOUSLY, TARWATER COULDN'T OVERCOME HIS LACK OF RUGBY FUNDAMENTALS TO SERIOUSLY CHALLENGE FOR AN A SIDE BERTH ANYWHERE.

"JIM WAS HIS OWN MAN," PAT DORWIN SAID. "THE ONLY PERSON I EVER SAW ON A RUGBY PITCH WHO SCARED ME ON SIGHT WAS A B SIDE PLAYER AT UT NAMED BOB SLAUGHTER, WHO LAST I HEARD WAS SERVING LIFE IN PRISON. I SUPPOSE JIM COULD HAVE DONE THE SAME THING TO A FEW OF OUR OPPONENTS, WHAT WITH THAT BULLDOG HEAD OF HIS."

TARWATER IS ONE OF THE MOST TALKATIVE FACEBOOK USERS IN THE KNOXVILLE AREA.

POSSUM CAREER: 1996-1997

POSSUM NUMBER: 186
HEIGHT: 6-1

WEIGHT: 240

POSITION: CENTER

ED TAUB

ED TAUB WAS AN OLD-SCHOOL HOOKER.

POSSUM CAREER: 1982-1990

POSSUM NUMBER: 199

PHIL THIELKE

A TALL LOCK FORWARD, PHIL THIELKE HAD A SOMEWHAT SHORT CAREER AS A POSSUM BEFORE MOVING ON TO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS IN NASHVILLE.

"OR PERHAPS IT WAS VICE-VERSA," SAID PAT DORWIN. "I'VE TRIED TO REMEMBER TOO MUCH SHIT FOR THIS BLOG THAT NOBODY SEEMS TO GIVE TWO CRAPS ABOUT, SO MAYBE PHIL PLAYED IN NASHVILLE FIRST THEN CAME HERE BEFORE GOING BACK TO KNOXVILLE.

"EITHER WAY, HELL OF A PLAYER, HELL OF A NICE GUY."

POSSUM CAREER 1995-1997

POSSUM NUMBER: 170

POSITION: LOCK

DAN TOMBLIN

POSSUM CAREER: 1995

POSSUM NUMBER: 171

JOE TRIBENDIS

POSSUM CAREER: 1989-1990

POSSUM NUMBER: 67