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Before we were the Ole Miss Rebels
Published 6:00 am Sunday, October 25, 2015
... For some time the athletic teams had been called the Red and Blue ... On Nov. 2, 1929, the MISSISSIPPIAN announced a contest to name the .. teams ... The “Mississippi Flood” was the name chosen by the selection committee ... The second choice was a tie between the “Rebels” and the “Democrats.” The third choice was the “Old Masters” ... In 1927, Mississippi and a large area of the lower Mississippi Valley had experienced a great flood ... The “Mississippi Flood” never caught on ...
http://www.oxfordeagle.com/2015/10/25/before-we-were-the-ole-miss-rebels/
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