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2 unusual facts about Mississippi State University


Carl Maddox

Carl Maddox was the athletics director of Louisiana State University (1968-1978) and Mississippi State University (1979-83).

Morley Jennings

He attended college at Mississippi State University, where he participated in baseball, basketball, football, and track.


Amy Tuck

Tuck, a native of tiny Maben in Oktibbeha County in north central Mississippi, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a Master of Public Administration degree from the Mississippi State University and a Juris Doctor degree from Mississippi College School of Law.

College Slam

It includes most major Division I colleges, but there are many, such as the University of Tennessee, the University of Notre Dame, and Mississippi State University (who had just made a run to the Final Four that year), that are not included.

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 Thorogood

It is also played during football pregame festivities at Mississippi State University and at USHRA Monster Jam events to introduce Grave Digger (regardless of driver).

Miscanthus giganteus

Large colleges, such as the University of Illinois, Mississippi State University and University of Georgia have committed several years and large portions of money to studying ethanol production in general.

Ray Malavasi

Malavasi left to attend Mississippi State University, earning a degree in engineering while serving as an assistant under head coach Murray Warmath in 1952 and also receiving an Army ROTC commission.

Robert Ivy

He currently serves on the advisory board of four architecture schools—Tulane University, Mississippi State University, Auburn University’s Rural Studio and Tongji University School of Architecture and Urban Planning in Shanghai, China.

Ross Barnett

In 1963, Barnett tried to prevent the men's basketball team of Mississippi State University from playing an NCAA Tournament game against the racially-integrated team from Loyola of Chicago.


see also

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.

Richard Holmes

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

William Giles

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