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28-538: The game was held at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson, Mississippi . It matched a team of senior players from Division I-A schools not participating in bowl games , against seniors from Division I-AA , Division II , and Division III schools; both teams also included some NAIA players. In advance of the game, players participated in practice days and a combine, which were open to NFL and CFL scouts. Head coaches:   † Game summaries differ from

56-560: A plan for the development for that property ... There's a lot involved here, and we don't want to cloud the issue. We want to make sure everyone understands that we're in full support of Jackson State. The 1993 Drum Corps International World Championships were held there with the Cadets of Bergen County taking 1st place. 32°19′46.7″N 90°10′47.2″W  /  32.329639°N 90.179778°W  / 32.329639; -90.179778 Egg Bowl The Egg Bowl (traditionally named

84-470: Is a large football-shaped brass piece mounted to a wooden base and traditionally symbolizes supremacy in college football in the state of Mississippi for the year. The footballs used in American football in the 1920s were considerably more ovoid and blunter than those in use today and similar to the balls still used in rugby ; the trophy thus, to modern eyes, more resembles an egg than a football. The game

112-472: The Kilgore College Rangers of Kilgore, Texas. A crowd of 18,000 saw Holmes fall to the visiting Rangers 32–12. The first Division I-A game took place on November 22, 1952, when Southern Mississippi defeated Louisville 55–26. Ole Miss first played their first game there on September 19, 1953, defeating Chattanooga 39–6, and on Halloween day of that same year, Mississippi State played there for

140-620: The Thanksgiving weekend . The Egg Bowl has been played on Thanksgiving 23 times, including from 1998 to 2003, in 2013, and from 2017 to 2023. The game now alternates between the two respective campuses. Contests in odd-numbered years are played in Starkville, Mississippi at Miss St, and even-numbered years in Oxford, Mississippi at Ole Miss. The first game in the series was played on October 28, 1901, at Mississippi State. Mississippi State, then known as

168-629: The Mississippi A&;M College and nicknamed the Aggies, defeated Ole Miss, nicknamed the Red and Blue at that time, by a final score of 17–0. The two squads met on the gridiron every year from 1901 until 1911 and then, after a three-year hiatus, resumed the series in 1915; since that 1915 meeting the two teams have met on the field every season with the exception of the 1943 season, when neither school fielded teams due to World War II . From 1973 through 1990,

196-502: The Ole Miss fans rushed the field with some trying to tear the goalposts down. A&M fans did not take well to the Ole Miss fans destroying their property and fights broke out. Some A&M fans defended the goal posts with wooden chairs, and several injuries were reported. According to one account: "Irate Aggie supporters took after the ambitious Ole Miss group with cane bottom chairs, and fights broke out. The mayhem continued until most of

224-655: The SEC in 2012). The Golden Eagles played their final home game there in 1988, a 38–21 win over Mississippi State. The stadium was also host to the annual Capital City Classic between Jackson State and Alcorn State University , both of the Southwestern Athletic Conference , from 1993 to 2010. Starting in 2011 the game began to alternate between Veterans Memorial Stadium and Alcorn State's home field, Jack Spinks Stadium , in Lorman when The Braves exercised their right as

252-500: The Tigers' basketball team, host concerts, and host special events. In addition to seating 50,000 for football, it would hold 17,000 for basketball and 21,000 for concerts and include 75 sky boxes for rental. The JSU Sports Hall of Fame would have been located on the first floor. ... the ultimate goal is that we have our own stadium close to campus just because we think that would be more beneficial to JSU. If JSU had relinquished control of

280-555: The annual Egg Bowl contests between Ole Miss and Mississippi State were held there from 1973 through the 1990 contest, after which the game returned to the two schools' respective campuses. Shortly after the 1980 expansion both Ole Miss and Mississippi State decided to enhance their on-campus facilities to develop the same home-field advantage of their fellow Southeastern Conference members, and gradually stopped playing games in Jackson altogether. The last game played there by an SEC school

308-482: The box score, stating that both Red touchdowns occurred late in the second half. Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium is an outdoor football stadium in Jackson, Mississippi , United States. Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium has been the home stadium of the Jackson State Tigers football team since 1970. Originally known as War Veterans Memorial Stadium, it

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336-423: The chairs were splintered." To prevent such events in the future, students of the two schools created The Golden Egg , a large trophy which has been awarded to the winning team each year since 1927. In the event of a tie, the school that won the game the previous year kept the trophy for the first half of the new year and then the trophy was sent to the other school for the second half of the new year. The trophy

364-400: The current seating to the official 60,492 seats. In 1960 the state legislature took over control of the stadium and it remained under their supervision until 2011 when "operational, administrative and managing powers and duties" were transferred to Jackson State University. The stadium hosted its first football game on December 9, 1950, a contest between Holmes Junior College Bulldogs and

392-428: The expected crowds, and both have been continually upgraded to the point where they are superior in amenities to Veterans Memorial Stadium. At one point the level of intensity was such that a victory by one of the schools in this game could salvage what had otherwise been a poor season. This dynamic has proven not to be applicable every year, however; in 2004 Ole Miss won the game but fired its coach , David Cutcliffe ,

420-746: The facility before 63,522. As referenced, for many years Mississippi Memorial Stadium served as an alternate home stadium for the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University , and occasionally the University of Southern Mississippi . From 1973 to 1990 the Egg Bowl was played there and from 1992 to 2013 it hosted the Mississippi High School Activities Association state championship football games. In addition to college and high school games it has hosted several National Football League (NFL) preseason games. The Stadium

448-401: The first time, suffering a 27–20 loss to Texas Tech . From the 1950s through the 1990s, Ole Miss (University of Mississippi), Mississippi State, and Southern Miss regularly played selected "home" games there, including "SEC doubleheader Saturdays" in which one school would host a conference opponent in the morning or afternoon and the other would host a conference opponent at night. Notably,

476-546: The game was played at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson , which seats about 62,000. The stadium was centrally located in the state and the state's only venue capable of seating the anticipated crowd; for many years Vaught–Hemingway Stadium in Oxford seated only about 32,000 and Scott Field in Starkville seated only about 31,000. Both campus venues have been considerably expanded and are now capable of accommodating

504-458: The home to host the game on their campus. In a document published on the Alcorn State website University President M. Christopher Brown II and interim athletic director Dwayne White informally dubbed the game the "Soul Bowl". From 2000 to 2004 Veterans Memorial was home of the renewed Backyard Brawl between Millsaps College and Mississippi College. On September 2, 2000, after a 40-year hiatus,

532-486: The next year following a disappointing season. Mississippi State dominated the first part of the series with a 17–5–1 record against Ole Miss. However, Ole Miss leads the series, in part due to its performance in the rivalry under Johnny Vaught . Vaught went 19–2–4 against Mississippi State during his two separate tenures at Ole Miss. Ole Miss has a similar advantage in winning percentage in games played both in Oxford and Starkville. The series has seen 5 wins for each team over

560-428: The past ten games (not including vacated wins). The Aggies (Bulldogs) dominated the early days of the series including a 13-game A&M winning streak from 1911 to 1925 during which time the Aggies outscored the Red and Blue by a combined 327–33. Through 1925 Ole Miss had won only five times out of 23 total contests. In 1926 when the Red and Blue ended their 13-game losing streak by defeating A&M 7–6 in Starkville,

588-652: The stadium's atmosphere won the championship in the College Football Campus Tour Best FCS Stadium Invitational, beating out the Kibbie Dome in Idaho in the title round with 58% of nearly 12,000 votes. The facility faced an uncertain future as Jackson State University explored and proposed building an on-campus venue. In the spring of 2013 Jackson State unveiled a proposal for a 50,000 seat, $ 200 million domed stadium that would also house

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616-412: The stadium, the University of Mississippi Medical Center expressed interest in using the property to build a medical research and treatment "city" in the area. If Jackson State had built a stadium either on or close to its campus UMMC would have regained ownership of the old facility and it would have been razed. We don't have a football team, so we would have no use for the stadium. So we would develop

644-489: The tenth longest uninterrupted series in the United States . Ole Miss leads the series 65–46–6 through the 2023 season. The game is an example of the intrastate sports rivalries between two public universities, one often bearing the state's name alone, and the other often being a land-grant university named a "State University". Like most such rivalries, it is contested at the end of the regular season, in this case during

672-495: The two schools resumed their football series and in front of a reported crowd of 10,200 spectators. Millsaps defeated Mississippi College 20–19. From 1992 to 2013 the Mississippi High School Activities Association state championship football games were played at the stadium, but on July 20, 2014 MHSAA executive director Don Hinton announced that those games would begin rotating between Davis Wade Stadium at Mississippi State and Vaught–Hemingway Stadium at Ole Miss. In 2024,

700-608: The “ Battle for the Golden Egg ”) is the name given to the Ole Miss–Mississippi State football rivalry . It is an American college football rivalry game played annually between Southeastern Conference members Mississippi State University and Ole Miss (The University of Mississippi) . The teams first played each other in 1901. Since 1927 the winning squad has been awarded possession of The Golden Egg trophy. The game has been played every year since 1944, making it

728-545: Was a blowout win by Ole Miss over Division I-AA VMI in 1996; the Rebels' last conference game at Jackson was a 1993 win over Arkansas . Mississippi State's last home game at Jackson was a 34–22 victory over LSU in 1990 and their last game of any sort there was the 1990 Egg Bowl where they lost to the Rebels 21–9 playing as the visiting team. Southern Miss made regular appearances as well, playing both UM and MSU as well as games against such schools as Texas A&M (which joined

756-448: Was later known as Hinds County War Memorial Stadium. It was redesigned and enlarged in 1960 and Ole Miss vs. Arkansas dedicated Mississippi Memorial Stadium in 1961 before a capacity crowd of 46,000. With political support from Ole Miss and Mississippi State and leadership from Ole Miss Athletics Director Warner Alford, Mississippi Memorial Stadium was enlarged to 62,500 in 1981 and on September 26, 1981 Ole Miss and Arkansas again dedicated

784-582: Was renamed Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in 1995. For many years, the stadium was the largest in the state until the University of Mississippi expanded its stadium in 2016. Construction on the facility began in early 1949 and it opened in 1950 with a seating capacity of 21,000. By 1953 temporary seating had brought the capacity up to 25,000 and in 1961 the stadium was expanded to hold 46,000. Then in 1981 it underwent an expansion that brought total capacity to 62,512, although subsequent renovations dropped

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