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unusual facts about Mississippi State



Matt Painter

Leaving his coaching staff before the season kicked off was assistant Rick Ray, who accepted the Mississippi State head coaching position, which gives Painter three former assistants that are currently head coaches at the division I level.

Peabody Education Fund

Founded of necessity due to damage caused largely by the American Civil War, the Peabody Education Fund was established by George Peabody in 1867 for the purpose of promoting "intellectual, moral, and industrial education in the most destitute portion of the Southern States." The gift of foundation consisted of securities to the value of $2,100,000, of which $1,100,000 were in Mississippi State bonds, afterward repudiated.

Ron Polk

Ronald George (Ron) Polk (born January 12, 1944) was a long-time head baseball coach at Mississippi State and is considered the "Father of SEC Baseball".

WKOR-FM

First DJs were Program Director Bill Tanner (who went on to Y-100 in Miami and KLVE in Los Angeles), Butch Luke (former Mississippi State football player and later continued as a big local personality) and Jon Robin (from WACR in Columbus).


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Bingaman

Adam Lewis Bingaman (1790–1869), Mississippi state representative and president of the Mississippi State Senate

Chris Relf

As a senior he led Mississippi State to the Music City Bowl where they defeated Wake Forest 23-17, marking the first back to back bowl appearances for the Bulldogs since the 1999-2000 seasons.

East Mississippi State Hospital

Due to advocacy from Dorothea Dix, on March 8, 1882 the Mississippi State Legislature passed legislation establishing the East Mississippi State Insane Asylum.

Fog Bowl

The 1974 Sun Bowl played December 28, 1974 between the Mississippi State Bulldogs and the North Carolina Tar Heels

Fred Carl, Jr.

Fred was recommended to the Mississippi State College Board for the honor by current Mississippi State University President, Dr. Mark E. Keenum.

George Humphrey

George Duke Humphrey (1897–1973), president of the Mississippi State College, 1934–1945

Jim Champion

A graduate of Mississippi State, Champion spent two seasons as a linebacker and offensive and defensive tackle for the New York Yanks of the National Football League.

Joseph Hilliard Cain, Sr.

During the 1930s, Cain worked with the Mississippi State Forest Service (now Mississippi Forestry Commission) and was Project Superintendent at the Civilian Conservation Corps Camp F-16 in the Ramsey Springs Community.

Kent Hull

Hull was selected to the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame in 1997, inducted into the Mississippi State University Sports Hall of Fame in 2000, received the Ralph C. Wilson Distinguished Service Award in 2001, was selected to the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 2002 and was the 19th inductee to the Wall of Fame at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo in 2002.

Mississippi State Bulldogs basketball

Mississippi State's most successful coaches include Babe McCarthy, Richard Williams, and Rick Stansbury.

Ralph Sasse

After leading Mississippi State College to a 20–10–2 record in three years and an appearance in the 1937 Orange Bowl, Sasse stunned the students and players by resigning from his head coach's duties, following a doctor's orders after a sudden nervous breakdown.

Richard Holmes

Richard E. Holmes (born 1944), first African-American student to enroll at Mississippi State University

Robert H. Foglesong

He helped to establish the Appalachian Leadership Honors Program at Mississippi State, which now goes by the name Montgomery Leadership Program in honor of former congressman Sonny Montgomery.

Rosedale, Mississippi

Locals claim that Johnson sold his soul to the Devil at the intersection of Mississippi state highways 1 and 8, on the south end of town, and that he tells this story metaphorically in "Cross Road Blues".

Roy Vernon Scott

In 1973, Scott and Jimmy G. Shoalmire, historian and archivist at Mississippi State, co-authored The Public Career of Cully Cobb: A Study in Agricultural Leadership. based on papers from the Henry A. Wallace Collection at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

Steve Freeman

Freeman's son, Brad, was a four-year letterman on the Mississippi State baseball team and helped the Bulldogs reach the College World Series in 1997 and 1998, and is now a field judge in the SEC.

Sylvester Croom

In it Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP, noting that the hire was in Mississippi, a state often regarded as having the poorest civil rights record, said that "For Mississippi State to place the fortunes of its team in black hands is more than welcome, however long it has taken."

Vivian Malone Jones

Her nephew Jeff Malone was an All-America basketball student-athlete at Mississippi State and NBA standout for many years.

William Giles

William L. Giles (1911–1997), former president of Mississippi State University, 1966-1976

WMAB

WMAB-FM, a radio station (89.9 FM) licensed to Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States