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A three-year letterman from 1968-70, Brister helped Ole Miss to three bowl games before being drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was one of several M-Club Alumni Board members who helped fund ...
Don Kessinger, MLB shortstop, All-Star, and Gold Glove Award winner, and Ole Miss head baseball coach [1] Grae Kessinger, MLB shortstop [2] Keith Kessinger, MLB shortstop and head baseball coach for Arkansas State Red Wolves [3] Bobby Kielty, major league outfielder; Frank Kinard (1914–1985), NFL offensive tackle; Dawson Knox, NFL tight end
Ole Miss also owns University-Oxford Airport, which is located north of the main campus. [78] North Mississippi Japanese Supplementary School, a Japanese weekend school, is operated in conjunction with Ole Miss, with classes held on campus. [93] [94] It opened in 2008 and was jointly established by several Japanese companies and the university.
Soileau was born in Baton Rouge on March 15, 1975. [3] She attended Parkview Baptist High School, where she excelled on the school's soccer team, [4] though a girls' team did not exist in her first year, so she played on the boys' team. [5]
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]
Williams was the first Black person to play college football for the Ole Miss Rebels of the University of Mississippi. [1] Nicknamed "Gentle Ben" during his college days, Williams was a three-time All-SEC selection. He holds the school record for sacks in a single season (18) and in a career (37). [2]
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 ...
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