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The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. Founded in 1848, the school is composed of the main campus, with three branch campuses located in Booneville, Tupelo, and Southaven. UM maintains a field station in Bay Springs as well as the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. Additionally, it is a sea-grant institute, as well as a space-grant institute.
Sixty-seven percent of undergraduates are from Mississippi, and 19% of all students are minorities. International students come from 66 nations.
University of Mississippi sports teams, originally known as the "Mississippi Flood", were re-named the Rebels in 1935, & compete in the competitive twelve-member Southeastern Conference (West Division) of the NCAA's Division I. The school's colors are cardinal red and navy blue, purposely chosen to mirror the school colors of Harvard and Yale, respectively.
Since 1983, the administration has distanced itself from Confederate symbols, including barring faculty from displaying any Confederate imagery in their offices. In 1997, sticks were banned, under the guise of fan safety, to discourage fans from displaying the Confederate battle flag at football games. This controversy began when head coach Tommy Tuberville complained that the battle flag had hampered his attempts to recruit a few top-notch black athletes. It should be noted however, that Tuberville was working under a probation handed down by the NCAA for numerous recruiting violations committed by his predecessor, Billy Brewer, which along with Ole Miss's sub-standard facilities at the time, also hampered Tuberville's recruiting efforts in his four seasons in Oxford. Tuberville departed for SEC rival Auburn in late 1998.
A couple of coaches prior to Tuberville expressed concerns about the difficulty of recruiting top-notch black athletes. Johnny Vaught was the Rebels' most successful coach and led the team from 1947-1971. He served in the athletic department from 1971-72, during which time Ole Miss' first black football player, Ben Williams, was signed and began playing. The defensive tackle eventually claimed All-SEC honors and had a long and successful NFL career following his stint at Ole Miss. He was recruited out of a small school in the Delta-region of Mississippi near the Mississippi River and border with Arkansas. After a slow start to the 1973 season, Vaught took over as head football coach for the remaining games.
During the Vaught-led years, the Ole Miss football team did very well. The highlight was the Rebels being voted national champions in the post-season polls in 1960. The Rebels participated in post-season play almost every other season of Vaught's 24-year tenure. Ole Miss did not play in a bowl game following the 1972 season, ending a national record 15 year streak of bowl appearances.
After the Vaught-led season in 1973, however, Williams was elected Colonel Reb. Coaches Ken Cooper, Steve Sloan, Billy Brewer, and Tuberville, all spoke at one point or another about the difficulties of recruiting the best black athletes, although the number of black players continued to increase so as to constitute almost half of the regular starters by 1983.
In 2003, the administration eliminated Colonel Reb, the mascot since 1979. A contest was held in which fans were invited to design a replacement. The athletic department chose two finalists, Rebel Bruiser and Rowdy Rebel, and invited fans to vote on their favorite. The limited fan response as well as ridicule from fans of rival schools prompted the administration to cancel the poll, so Ole Miss currently has no official mascot. A group of Colonel Reb supporters, however, have created "Colonel Too". Supposedly he is the Colonel Reb's cousin, and can be found cheering in the stands.
With a long history in intercollegiate athletics, the university competes in 18 men’s and women’s sports. Student-athletes, 630 in all, received all-conference academic honors from 1995-2004. On the field, Ole Miss has gone through many lean years since the 1960s, but had enjoyed a little more success recently, including a SEC Western Division Co-Championship and Cotton Bowl victory in 2003, as the Rebels were led to 10 victories by Eli Manning, the son of Ole Miss great Archie Manning. However, post-Eli, the Rebels only have 11 wins over the past three seasons.
Also the Ole Miss Rebel Baseball program has made great strides under the leadership of Mike Bianco, since 2003 the Rebels have hosted three NCAA Regionals and two NCAA Super Regionals. The Rebel baseball team has missed the College World Series by only one game twice, falling to Texas, the eventual National Champion, in 2005 and Miami in 2006.
No family has had more impact upon the shape of Ole Miss athletics than the Manning family. Archie was an Ole Miss football great in the late 1960s and his son Eli Manning led the Rebels to their first ten win season in thirty years in 2003. The impact of Archie Manning, who married a former Ole Miss homecoming queen, is undeniable. His uniform number, 18, has become the official speed limit of the Oxford campus. |
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