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Tennessee football legend Johnny Majors passes away

Johnny Majors, an All-American who helped lead Tennessee football to a national championship in 1956 and then a head coach who led the Vols to three SEC Championships, has died. He was 85 years old.

Majors’ wife, Mary Lynn Majors, confirmed the passing of the UT legend in a statement to WNML-FM. She said he spent his final hours looking over the Tennessee River, which was “something he dearly loved.”

In 1977, Majors left the Pittsburgh Panthers, where he had just won a national title, to take over a struggling Tennessee football program.