TUSCALOOSA - Alabama has denied a request by Tennessee to wear its orange football jerseys Saturday.
A new NCAA rule permits visiting teams to wear jerseys other than white, but the rule also states that the home team must approve.
Tennessee had received permission from the Southeastern Conference to wear orange jerseys as the visiting team in the 2:30 p.m. game at Bryant-Denny Stadium, returning to the way things were until the late 1960s.
But Alabama wants the Vols to wear white jerseys.
"Mike (Hamilton) and I had a good conversation this morning," Alabama athletics director Mal Moore said of Tennessee's athletics director, "and I told him that it is our desire to maintain the custom of the visiting team wearing their visiting jerseys.
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10-19-2009, 09:33 PM
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