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Mike Moore (born 1952), Mississippi attorney general; Charles W. Pickering (born 1937), U.S. district judge [8] Michael K. Randolph (born 1946), associate justice, Mississippi Supreme Court; Richard Scruggs (born 1946), trial attorney; Sydney M. Smith (1869–1948), chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court [9] Keith Starrett (born 1951 ...
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 autos were replaced by tents. As a result of fans claiming certain areas within The Grove for their tents, and often being angered when they arrived and found another person in "their spot." The Ole Miss Alumni Association's Grove Society began in 1998 to preserve the 10-acre (4.0 ha) green space. [3]
Derrick Nix (born February 22, 1980) is an American football coach and former player who is currently the offensive coordinator at Auburn University.He played college football at Southern Miss where he was the only player in Conference USA history to rush for over 1,000 yards in three seasons.
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]
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 ...
“I know they have absolutely no idea of what it was like almost 60 years ago,” Laverne Greene-Leech says COLUMBUS, […] The post Mississippi University for Women honors first Black students ...
After the poor showing in 1929, the Ole Miss student body and alumni were reportedly opposed to Hazel's tactics on the football field. Hazel resigned his post at Ole Miss in January 1930. [24] Leading Ole Miss into the Southeastern Conference in 1933 was head coach Ed Walker, who served as the school's head coach from 1930 to 1937.