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Clyde Clark gets appreciation award from other fans
Jack Lail / News Sentinel
Clyde Clark, 86, of Roanoke, Va., receives an appreciation award from the UTSPORTS email list on Saturday..
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A Roanoke, Va., man who has been coming to University of Tennessee football games since 1948 and has been a season ticket holder since 1970, received an award Saturday from other members of an email list he is on.
Clyde Clark, 86, received a plaque honoring him for his contributions over several years to the UTSPORTS list, which is administered by the Knoxville News Sentinel.
The award presentation was a surprise to Clark, the unofficial UT historian on the list. He is the only person to have ever received a plaque from the list members. List members from Texas, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky Virginia and Tennessee attended a lunch in his honor at Calhoun's at Volunteer Landing.
The University of Tennessee is Clark's "adopted" university. He started following the Volunteers while growing up in St. Charles, a coal-mining area in southwest Virginia's Lee County.
Clark delivered the News Sentinel while he was growing up in St. Charles and began collecting newspapers clipping and other Tennessee memorabilia. His collection today is extensive.
A military veteran and longtime Eastern Airlines worker, he lived in Charlotte and Miami before retiring to Roanoke.
The UTSPORTS list was started in the mid-1990s by Mike Shelton, who was at Duke University at the time. The administration of the list was later taken over by The Knoxville News Sentinel.
It has 300 members and is a heavy volume email list often with up to 100 messages a day. To subscribe, send a note to listserv@lists.scripps.com. In the body, put subscribe UTSPORTS your name.
You may leave the list by sending an email to listserv@lists.scripps.com and putting signoff UTSPORTS in the body.
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Posted by luke24.5 on October 27, 2007 at 9:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Well written Jack and to "atta boys" to all behind the giving the award. Congratulations to Clyde. Well done all around.
Posted by volsrock54 on October 27, 2007 at 9:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I am proud to say I know Clyde Clark and let me say there is no finer man on the planet. Congratulations Clyde. Love you my Vol brother. Go Vols!
Posted by volguy on October 29, 2007 at 8:03 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Congrats, Clyde. It's a honor well deserved!
Posted by utvolz on October 29, 2007 at 7:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Clyde,
It is an honor and my privilege to have been a small part of your ceremony this weekend. You are a UT treasure and I'm proud to call you my friend.
Frank Turner
Posted by mrmoo on October 30, 2007 at 12:05 p.m. (Suggest removal)
what a pleasure to be in knoxville for a special weekend and for the honor given to Clyde. he's a great guy and probably forgotten more about VOL football than the rest of us will ever know.
Posted by gary_yacks on October 30, 2007 at 9:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Clyde --
You are the true spirit of what embodies the Vols and I am proud to call you my friend....Thanks for all you have done for my family and I and for the List.....God truly created an angel when you came around and I am forever indebted to you.....My best to you and Ms Virginia always and know that you are appreciated and loved.....Take care my Vol Friend and thanks again....
Gary
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