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SHAWN VAN DYKE

SPENT ENOUGH TIME AT A SIDE HOOKER TO EARN VOTES FOR ALL-TIME POSSUM TEAMS.

GOOD ATHLETE WHO EXCELLED AT LINEOUT THROWS, SOMETHING KNOXVILLE TRADITIONALLY HAD TROUBLE WITH.

POSSUM CAREER: 1999-2005
POSSUM NUMBER: 195
HEIGHT: 5-8
WEIGHT: 179
POSITIONS PLAYED: HOOKER
OTHER CLUBS: UT

HARRY VESS

POSSUM FOUNDER.

POSSUM CAREER: 1980-1982

POSSUM NUMBER: 5

MIKE VINTON

A FREQUENT VISITOR TO THE AREA TO SEE HIS FRIEND BRIAN NIEKERK, MIKE VINTON GOT IN A NUMBER OF A SIDE MATCHES OVER THE YEARS.

"HE WAS A CLASSIC CENTER," SAID PAT DORWIN. "SOLID ALL-AROUND ON DFEFENSE AND OFFENSE, HE USUALLY CROSSED THE GAINLINE AND STOPPED HIS OPPOSITE FROM DOING THE SAME."

POSSUM CAREER: VARIOUS IN THE 1980s AND 1990s. PROBABLY 20 TO 25 A SIDE MATCHES OVER THE YEARS.

POSSUM CAREER: 1989-1997
POSSUM NUMBER: 85
HEIGHT: 5-11
WEIGHT: 215
POSITIONS PLAYED: CENTER