[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 167 (Wednesday, December 5, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H8846]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             CONGRATULATIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

  (Mr. CLEMENT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLEMENT. Mr. Speaker, President Bush has said let us get back to 
normal as much as we possibly can. We had a football game, the 
gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Duncan) and I know, that happened in 
Florida between the University of Tennessee and Florida, and we had not 
beaten Florida in 30 years in Florida, in Gainesville, but we won that 
battle.
  Mr. Speaker, we were an 18-point underdog, but we did very well and 
now are playing for the SCC championship, and I want to congratulate 
the University of Tennessee, my alma mater. I am a former college 
president at Cumberland University, and I want my colleagues to know 
that we hold the distinction at Cumberland of being defeated worse in 
football than any other school in America: Cumberland 0, Georgia Tech 
222.
  If Members want to know more about that game, there is a book written 
about that game, ``You Dropped It, You Pick It Up.'' One of the 
Cumberland players dropped the ball during the game. The Cumberland 
player said, ``Pick it up, pick it up.'' Another Cumberland player 
said, ``You dropped it, you pick it up.''

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