In this day 43 years ago (1982) Southern Miss replaced St Louis as the 7th member of the Metro conference with:
Cincinnati, Florida State, Louisville, Memphis State, Tulane, and Virginia Tech

Truly great athlete. Led Southern Miss in interceptions. Threw a no-hitter. Greatest punter ever. Did this in the superbowl at age 35.

Nice. Here’s one from 2023 on a visit to Santa Rosa, CA

From the August 1915 Sanborn map of Hattiesburg, this partial page inset map is the earliest map I have seen of the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi

Architect Frank Pierce Milburn.  Continuous use since 1910.

For my first post, I am featuring my grand father’s July 1936 CCC camp newsletter with baseball box scores and stats. He’s the hard hitting catcher named Landry. He met my grandmother while working in the camp