Tommie Belton Smiley, Jr. (February 18, 1944 – October 10, 2012) was a former

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player. Tom Smiley caught the first pass in

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history, a 2-yard reception from quarterback

Dewey Warren Dewey Warren (born May 7, 1945) is a former American football quarterback for the University of Tennessee football team and the American Football League's Cincinnati Bengals. Warren was nicknamed "The Swamp Rat" due to his early years growin ...

on September 6, 1968.

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