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3rdgenerationtiger · 12-12-2022 09:19 AM

On December 12, 1983, one week after being named Metro Conference Coach of the year, Rex Dockery, assistant coach Chris Faros, freshman defensive back Charles Greenhill and Highland Hundred member Glen Jones were killed in an airplane crash while enroute to attend the Lawrenceburg, Tennessee Quarterback Club Awards Banquet.

Seems like yesterday…

~~Hernando Hills Tiger~~ · 12-12-2022 09:40 AM

The saddest day in Tigers sports.

jsw3ent · 12-12-2022 09:41 AM

(12-12-2022 09:40 AM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote: The saddest day in Tigers sports.

YEP

MemphisTigerPawr · 12-12-2022 09:45 AM

We say it all the time, but Greenhill was such a talented player.

Dockery had this program on the move.

Prayer for all the families involved

bbqtiger · 12-12-2022 04:02 PM

I often wonder where we would be if Coach Dockery and the others had survived. But then, quickly, I come back to our overall journey since then.

What a real tragedy for all of the families involved.

CRM114 · 12-12-2022 06:16 PM

(12-12-2022 04:02 PM)bbqtiger Wrote: I often wonder where we would be if Coach Dockery and the others had survived. But then, quickly, I come back to our overall journey since then.

What a real tragedy for all of the families involved.

Suppose he was still here in 1988 and had the program rolling. Remember the Tennessee team that came into Memphis 0-6 that year? Under Dockery the Tigers probably win that game and make them 0-7. Would that have been enough for UT to fire Johnny Majors, and perhaps hire Dockery back to his alma mater?

72Tiger · 12-12-2022 10:17 PM

Remember the shock and sadness of it all.

former guest · 12-13-2022 12:11 AM

(12-12-2022 10:17 PM)72Tiger Wrote: Remember the shock and sadness of it all.

My thoughts exactly. I remember sitting there just dumbfounded at the news.

eltigre · 12-13-2022 01:46 AM

That was an awful day. I have been to the crash site a time or two since then.

Tiger87 · 12-13-2022 09:51 AM

(12-13-2022 01:46 AM)eltigre Wrote: That was an awful day. I have been to the crash site a time or two since then.

Where is that again?
It was my freshman year.

Eagleonpar · 12-13-2022 10:01 AM

(12-13-2022 09:51 AM)Tiger87 Wrote:
(12-13-2022 01:46 AM)eltigre Wrote: That was an awful day. I have been to the crash site a time or two since then.

Where is that again?
It was my freshman year.

Lawrenceburg area?

Tiger87 · 12-13-2022 10:35 AM

(12-13-2022 10:01 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote:
(12-13-2022 09:51 AM)Tiger87 Wrote:
(12-13-2022 01:46 AM)eltigre Wrote: That was an awful day. I have been to the crash site a time or two since then.

Where is that again?
It was my freshman year.

Lawrenceburg area?

That's where they were headed, but can't recall where the plane actually went down.

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