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A Guest Blog by Author Mike Frascogna How did JUCO football begin? Mississippi’s Junior College (now called community colleges) began in the 1920s, when the State Legislature approved agricultural high schools adding a thirteenth and fourteenth grade. The typical junior college in those days was a boarding school, still with a concentration on agricultural studies. [...]

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When Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College was first established in 1925, it was known as Perkinston (Perk for short), the namesake of the town where it is located. Later the official name of the school was changed to Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (also known as Gulf Coast). Just 28 miles down Highway 26 from [...]

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A Guest Blog by Author Mike Frascogna Played November 7, 1964 at Scooba, the undefeated Lions were beaten by arch-rival Jones County Junior College 32-13 to spoil East Mississippi’s trip to the Junior Rose Bowl and a shot at the National Championship. During the game Scooba’s All-American quarterback, Bill Buckner, was sent to the hospital [...]

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A Guest Blog by Author Mike Frascogna Love it or hate it, Mississippi JUCO football is unique. The League, while considered by some to be rogue, has produced literally thousands of players who have gone on the compete at the Division I and professional levels. Hidden in all the glamor of big-time college and professional [...]

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A Guest Post by Editor Neil White In researching, Mississippi’s 100 Greatest Football Players of All Time, we discovered some fascinating statistics. Consider this about our state: • 588 native-born Mississippians have played professional football • 726 professional players attended Mississippi institutions of higher learning. Here’s the breakdown: No. of NFL Players by College or [...]

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A Guest Post by Editor Neil White In preparing the coffee-table book, Mississippi’s 100 Greatest Football Players of All Time, we at Nautilus Publishing have gone to great lengths to create an accurate system of measurement. However, we are the first to admit that any attempts to rank football careers are subjective. Our system is [...]

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A Guest Blog by Author Mike Frascogna Legend has it that Bozo arrived on the Hinds campus sometime in the mid-40s. While there is no evidence to pinpoint the exact date of Bozo’s arrival, or birth, albeit whatever manner he, she or it, was created, the date of its origin still remains a mystery. There [...]

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A Guest Post by Editor Neil White In the fall of 1970, I sat in my fourth-grade Sunday school class. Our teacher, Mrs. Hemphill, posed a question to the class of three girls and three boys. “Who is your hero?” she asked. The girls in the class mentioned Bobbie Gentry and Jackie Kennedy and Nancy [...]

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It’s been, oh, at least a few weeks since I last blogged about a baseball book…what can I say? Whenever I’m feeling a bit uninspired by the next book in my reading stack, I find myself gravitating toward the baseball section. I’m sure it’s possible to write a bad baseball book (I’ve seen them and [...]

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Born to Run is one of those books that I wanted to read when it was released, but the stack of books on my nightstand was too tall at the time. Occasionally I’d spot the book when unpacking boxes or while I was looking for something in the sports and outdoor section, but it wasn’t [...]

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