With 2010 being the Centennial Celebration for one-hundred years of the University of Southern Mississippi, it's time to look back on some of the accomplishments of the athletic programs. To think that the first football game was played in Kamper Park down Hardy street in Hattiesburg, MS. The pickup game was played between the Mississippi Normal College Normalites and the Hattiesburg Boy Scouts. Mississippi Normal won the game 30-0. Granted times were very different back in 1912, so a college team defeating a bunch of boyscouts was probably a lot more challenging than what it initially sounds like. Since then there have been multiple accomplishments by the college that even the average student wouldn't realize. The football program is the most storied because of societies' gradual change from baseball being America's past time to football. The program was at its highest point with its victory against Colorado St. in the Autozone Liberty Bowl in 1999. Since then there have been seven consecutive winning seasons, multiple bowl appearances, and over one-hundred players drafted into the NFL. Some of the most notable players have been Brett Favre, Ray Guy, and Adalius Thomas. Favre is the only player to receive the honor of NFL MVP three years in a row. Guy is the only punter to ever be drafted in the first round in league history. Thomas was a sixth round draft pick with the Baltimore Ravens who became an instant starter and perennial Pro Bowler. There have been more Southern ...
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