Millsaps Majors

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Millsaps College
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University Millsaps College
Conference Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference
Association NCAA Division III
Athletics director Tim Wise
Location Jackson, MS
Varsity teams 14
Football stadium Harper Davis Field (football and soccer)
Basketball arena The Hangar Dome (basketball and volleyball)
Baseball stadium Twenty Field
Other arenas Millsaps Softball Complex
Mascot Mr. Major
Nickname Majors
Fight song Purple and White
Colors Purple and White

             
Homepage GoMajors.com

The Millsaps Majors is the nickname for the sports teams of Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi and their colors are purple and white. They participate in the NCAA's Division III and the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.[1]

Men participate in baseball, basketball, cheerleading, football, soccer, tennis, golf, and cross country. Women's sports include basketball, cheerleading, dance team, softball, soccer, tennis, golf, cross country, and volleyball.[1]

Contents

[edit] Football

[edit] History

The 1980 Majors football team went undefeated in 1980 at 9-0.[2]

2000 saw the Majors end the season with a 5-5 record (2-4 SCAC).[3]

2001 saw the Majors end the season with a 6-4 winning record (3-3 SCAC).[4]

2002 saw the Majors end the season with a 3-6 losing record (1-5 SCAC).[5]

2003 saw the Majors end the season with a 1-9 losing record (1-5 SCAC).[6]

2004 saw the Majors end the season with a 4-5 losing record (3-3 SCAC).[7]

2005 saw the Majors end the season with a 2-7 losing record (1-5 SCAC).[8]

[edit] 2006

1930 Western Union telegam: Millsaps College beats Mississippi State University (then Mississippi A&M) in football, 19-13.

In Mike Dubose's first year as head coach, 2006 saw the Majors end the season with a 7-4 winning record (6-0 SCAC).[9] Millsaps won the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference football championship this year by defeating Trinity University and claimed their first SCAC football title since 1996. The conference title earned them an automatic bid to the Division III playoffs, an achievement that the Majors had not accomplished since 1975. Millsaps went on to lose their first Division III playoff game to Carnegie Mellon University, 0-21.[9]

[edit] 2007

2007 saw the Majors end the season with a 8-2 winning record (6-1 SCAC).[10]

In the 2007 Trinity vs. Millsaps football game on October 27, 2007, trailing by two points with two seconds left in the game, Trinity University called a play for a short pass across the middle. The receiver pitched the ball backward, with a sequence of additional backward passes, also known as laterals, as players were in danger of being tackled. The "Mississippi Miracle" ultimately included 15 backward passes as it covered 60 yards for a touchdown that gave Trinity the win.[11][12][13][14][15] Ironically, it was the Millsaps Majors that defeated the Trinity Tigers the previous year 34-12 to win the SCAC championship.[9]

[edit] 2008

2008 saw the Majors end the season with an 11-1 winning record (7-0 SCAC).[16] The Majors won the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference football championship this year by again defeating Trinity University 56-27 for the title. The conference title earned the Majors an automatic bid to the Division III playoffs. Millsaps won their first game in the 2008 playoffs, defeating LaGrange College, 51-26.[17] However, the Majors lost their second game in the 2008 playoffs to Washington & Jefferson College, 20-35.[18]

[edit] Head coaches

[edit] David Saunders

David Saunders, a 1982 graduate of Auburn University where he was a walk-on lineman for the Auburn Tigers, served as the head football coach of the Millsaps Majors for three seasons, 2003-2005, compiling a record of 7 wins and 21 losses. Saunders served at University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) for four years from 1998-2002 as Assistant to the Athletics Director for Recruiting in the first two years and as Coordinator of High School and Community College Relations in the second two years. Saunders resigned as head coach at Millsaps to return to Ole Miss as an Assistant Coach.[19]

[edit] Mike DuBose

The Majors are led by former University of Alabama head coach (1997-2000) Mike DuBose, who came to Millsaps in 2005 after having worked for three years at Northview High School and Luverne High School in Alabama. Initially he was hired as Defensive Coordinator at Millsaps by then head coach David Saunders. At the end of the 2005 season, Saunders resigned and Dubose was promoted to Head Coach. Dubose has also held various assistant coaching positions at other colleges including defensive line coach at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (1980-1982), defensive line coach at the University of Southern Mississippi (1982/83 season) and defensive line coach at Alabama (1984-1987 and 1990-1996). He coached the defensive line for the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers for three years (1987-1989). Under DuBose as head coach, the Majors hold a record of 26-7.

[edit] Baseball

2008 saw the Majors end the regular season with a 32-8 winning record (15-5 SCAC) and a SCAC West Division championship.[20][21]

[edit] Lacrosse

Both men and women will begin lacrosse teams in 2010[22].

[edit] Rivalries

The Majors had a fierce football and basketball rivalry with Mississippi College in nearby Clinton through the 1950s before competition was suspended after an infamous student brawl at a basketball game. Campus legend says the brawl was sparked by the alleged theft of the body of Millsaps founder Major Millsaps by Mississippi College students. The rivalry was considered by many as the best in Mississippi, featuring a prank by Mississippi College students who painted "TO HELL WITH MILSAPS" (sic) on the Millsaps Observatory. The football rivalry resumed in 2000 as the "Backyard Brawl", with games being held at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium until 2006 when it was played at Robinson-Hale Stadium on the campus of Mississippi College. The rivalry took a one-year hiatus in 2005 but resumed in 2006.

[edit] NFL affiliation

Millsaps was the summer training camp home for the NFL's New Orleans Saints in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Millsaps College Athletics". Millsaps.edu (Millsaps College). http://www.millsaps.edu/athletic/mwsports.shtml. Retrieved 2007-10-30. 
  2. ^ Millsaps College: Hall of Fame Jesse McRight
  3. ^ 2000 SCAC Football; Millsaps College
  4. ^ SCAC: 2001 SCAC Football; Millsaps College
  5. ^ SCAC: 2002 SCAC Football; Millsaps College
  6. ^ SCAC: 2003 SCAC Football; Millsaps College
  7. ^ SCAC: 2004 SCAC Football; Millsaps College
  8. ^ SCAC: 2005 SCAC Football; Millsaps College
  9. ^ a b c 2006 SCAC Football Millsaps College Statistics
  10. ^ SCAC: 2007 SCAC Football; Millsaps College
  11. ^ Briggs, Jerry (October 27, 2007). "Football: Trinity wins on miracle play". San Antonio Express News. http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/stories/MYSA102707.EN.FBCtrinity.millsaps.1b21f550e.html. Retrieved 2007-10-28. 
  12. ^ "Video of the play". ESPN.com (The Disney Company). http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3083220&categoryId=2564308. Retrieved 2007-10-30. 
  13. ^ "Lateralapalooza". SI.com (Time Warner). http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/10/28/trinity.lateralapalooza.ap/index.html. Retrieved 2007-10-30. 
  14. ^ Christensen, Mike (October 28, 2007). "Wild finish - think Cal-Stanford, '82 - beats Majors". ClarionLedger.com (Gannett Company). http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071028/SPORTS030105/710280359/1085/SPORTS. Retrieved 2007-10-30. 
  15. ^ Briggs, Jerry. "Football: Trinity wins on miracle play". MySanAntonio.com (San Antonio Express News). http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/localcolleges/stories/MYSA102707.EN.FBCtrinity.millsaps.1b21f550e.html. 
  16. ^ SCAC: 2008 SCAC Football; Millsaps College
  17. ^ SCAC: Millsaps Advances to Second Round in 51-26 Win over LaGrange
  18. ^ SCAC: Millsaps falls to Washington & Jefferson in NCAA Football Playoffs
  19. ^ Ole Miss Sports: David Saunders bio
  20. ^ SCAC: 2008 SCAC Baseball; Millsaps College
  21. ^ GoMajors.com: Majors Tame Tigers 14-4, Secure 13th Division Title
  22. ^ GoMaors.com: Millsaps to Add Men's and Women's Lacrosse in 2010-11

[edit] External links

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