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The University of Mississippi was the first college in the Southeast to hire a female faculty member: Sarah McGehee Isom in 1885. The nickname "Ole Miss" dates to 1897, when the student yearbook was first published. A contest was held to solicit suggestions for a yearbook title from the student body, and Elma Meek submitted the winning entry.
The same nickname may apply to multiple institutions, especially in different regions. For example, "SC" is claimed by both the University of Southern California and the University of South Carolina. The abbreviation may be non-obvious. For example, "KU" is the University of Kansas and not "UK," which is commonly the University of Kentucky. In ...
The first prime-time telecast of college football was of a 1969 Ole Miss game. [234] The team has won six SEC championships. [235] Major rivals include Louisiana State University and Mississippi State University, which Ole Miss plays against in the Magnolia Bowl and Egg Bowl, respectively. [236] [237] Other rivalries include Tulane and Vanderbilt.
The Golden Egg trophy was only introduced in 1927, but Ole Miss and Mississippi State have met on the gridiron since 1901. In their 119 meetings, Ole Miss leads with a record of 64-47-6.
In 1989, star Ole Miss women's basketball player Kimsey O'Neal became the first black student to gain the title "Miss Ole Miss." One year later, in 1990, Roy Lee "Chucky" Mullins, the Rebel athlete who suffered a devastating football injury in 1989 that left him a quadriplegic, was elected "Colonel Reb" by the student body. In 2013, the ...
Ole Miss baseball and Mississippi State have played a nonconference game in Jackson or Pearl in every full season since 1980. Is that in jeopardy? The Mississippi Braves are moving.
Ole Miss became the nation's first college football team to fly "en masse" to a game in 1937. The team flew from Memphis to Philadelphia to play Temple University Temple Owls. (University of New Mexico took the first flight of any team in 1929.) [52] [53] [54] Ole Miss' first game to be broadcast on television was in 1948 against Memphis. [55]
Generally, athletics are mainly branded by their common name, meaning words like "University of" or "College" are usually omitted and only the unique name elements are used. For example, the University of Minnesota is only known as "Minnesota", San Diego State University as "San Diego State", and so on.