MSU TIMELINE 1892 Oct. 28, 1901 Jan. 1, 1912 Mississippi A&M College The Aggies earn the first victory in In its first and only game played faculty challenge a team of school history, a 17-0 triumph over outside of the United States, students on Thanksgiving Mississippi, the first game in the Mississippi A&M defeats Club Day to the first football long and storied rivalry. Atletico de Cuba, 12-0 in game played on campus. Havana, Cuba. 1903 1895 Mississippi A&M finishes its first 1914 Team captain W.M. Matthews undefeated season (under head A new field is built to replace Hardy chooses Maroon and White as coach Dan Martin) with a 3-0-2 Field, and for six years is referred team colors. record. to by the A&M student body as the 1895 “New Athletic Field.” Mississippi A&M fields first 1905 team, coached by W.M. Mississippi A&M College builds 1915 & 1916 Matthews, and finishes the sea- Hardy Field, the school’s first-ever Under head coach E.C. Hayes, the Aggies son with an 0-2 record. football field. defeat the University of Mississippi in consecutive years by a combined score Oct. 10, 1896 1907 of 101-0. A&M loses 8-0 to Southwestern Baptist Fred Furman becomes the first University (now Union University) in the full-time head coach/athletic 1917-19 first game played in Starkville, at the director. In three seasons as head coach, Sid Robinson Starkville Fairgrounds. compiles a .750 winning percentage—still the 1901 1909 second-highest percentage in school history. After a four-year absence, W.D. Chadwick is hired as football is revived at A&M under head coach and proceeds to player-coach L.B. Harvey. lead Mississippi A&M to five consecutive winning seasons. 1890-1920 1940 1952 The Maroons compile their first 10-win season and Quarterback Jackie Parker sets the SEC single- finish with an undefeated 10-0-1 record. season scoring record with 120 points (Parker 1940 currently stands No. 2 in that category). Coach McKeen is named the SEC Coach of the Year, 1957 and end Erwin ‘Buddy’ Elrod becomes State’s first Mississippi State finishes 6-2-1 and No. 14 in consensus all-American, following the 1940 season. the final AP poll. 1958 Jan. 1, 1941 State College is granted university status and Allyn McKeen’s ‘Maroon Machine’ earns State’s first bowl becomes Mississippi State University. victory, 14-7 over Georgetown in the ‘41 Orange Bowl, and finishes season ranked No. 9 in AP poll. 1961 MSU adopts ‘Bulldogs’ as its nickname. 1941 State wins its first SEC title with a 4-0-1 league record, is Dec. 21, 1963 ranked No. 16 in the final AP poll, but does not play in a State defeats NC State in the 1963 Liberty Bowl in bowl game due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Philadelphia, and finishes No. 11 in the final UPI poll. Oct. 17, 1970 1942 Flanker David Smith sets the school receiving record with a Maroons finish with an 8-2 record and a No. 18 final 215-yard performance vs. Texas Tech in Jackson. AP ranking. Dec. 28, 1974 1944 Following an 8-3 season, Mississippi State defeats North Carolina Tom ‘Shorty’ McWilliams finishes 10th in the 26-24 in the Sun Bowl at El Paso, Texas. The Bulldogs finish with a Heisman Trophy balloting, State’s highest 9-3 record and ranked No. 17 in both the AP & UPI polls. finish ever. 1940-1975 Summer 2000 Dec. 31, 2000 The largest expansion project in MSU athletic history State defeated Texas A&M 43-41 in an exciting snow- begins with a $30 million expansion of Scott Field. filled overtime game to claim the Independence Bowl title. The game goes down as one of the most Sept. 30 & Oct. 7, 2000 memorable games in MSU and bowl history. MSU defeats #3 Florida and #15 Auburn, the eventual SEC Eastern and Western Division champions, in back-to-back weekends. Nov. 11, 2000 The Bulldogs defeat Alabama 29-7 at Scott Field to give coach Jackie Sherrill his 66th victory at MSU, making him the winningest coach in MSU history. 2000- 126 MSU TIMELINE 1920 1935 Students rename the football field “Scott Coach Ralph Sasse selects a Bulldog from Memphis Field,” in honor of 1920 track star and named ‘Ptolemy’ as the school’s first official game Olympian Don Scott, the nation’s premier mascot, and the Maroons defeat Alabama 20-7. half-miler and a football letterman in 1915 1935 and 1916. Shortly following one of the school’s greatest 1922 victories, State’s 13-7 win over Army, a litter- In his only season as head football coach, mate of ‘Ptolemy’ becomes the first ‘Bully.’ C.R. ‘Dudy’ Noble leads the Aggies to a 3-4-2 1936 record, including a 19-13 win over Mississippi. Scott Field undergoes its first expansion, seating Nov. 25, 1927 as many as 26,000. A&M loses to Mississippi in the debut of the 1936 “Battle for the Golden Egg,” the football- Under Sasse, the Maroons compile their first SEC shaped trophy students from the schools winning record. decided to award the winning team. 1932 Jan. 1, 1937 Mississippi A&M officially State competes in its first ever bowl game, a 13-12 becomes Mississippi State loss to Duquesne in the 1937 Orange Bowl. College. 1937 December 1932 Chuck Gelatka becomes first State player Mississippi State College becomes selected in the NFL draft, a 10th-round pick of one of 13 charter members of the new the New York Giants. Southeastern Conference. 1920-1940 1980 Oct. 22, 1994 MSU records a remarkable 6-3 victory Sophomore Derrick Taite over No. 1 ranked Alabama. shatters the MSU single-game October 1981 passing mark with 466 yards After a 21-17 victory in Auburn, MSU in a 66-22 win over Tulane. climbs to a No. 7 national ranking, Nov. 16, 1996 the highest in school history. MSU defeats No. 8 Alabama 17-16 in 1982 Starkville, State’s first victory over the State defeats No. 6 LSU, 27-24 in the first night Tide at Scott Field. game at Scott Field. November 1998 1986 MSU defeats Alabama, Arkansas and Former MSU QB Rockey Felker is named Ole Miss in succession to claim the SEC head coach and State proceeds to win five Western Division title. Senior James of its first six games and is ranked No. 13. “J.J.” Johnson crushes school records Dec. 9, 1990 for rushing (237) and all-purpose yards Jackie Sherrill is hired as MSU’s head (312) against Alabama. coach. Dec. 5, 1998 Oct. 1, 1992 State competes in the SEC In front of the largest home- Championship Game for the first opening crowd in Scott Field his- time ever, falling to eventual national tory (38,886—since broken), and a champion Tennessee 24-14 after national TV audience (ESPN), the holding a 14-10, fourth-quarter lead. 24th-ranked Bulldogs humble the 13th-ranked Florida Gators, 30-6. 1975-2000 Dec. 1, 2003 Nov. 26, 2005 Sylvester Croom is named Mississippi State’s The Bulldogs win their first Egg Bowl 31st head football coach. of Coach Croom’s tenure with a 35-14 routing of the Rebels. Norwood rushes Oct. 23, 2004 34 times for 204 yards despite missing After recording a season-opening win nearly the entire third quarter. against Tulane, the Bulldogs get win num- ber two of the Croom era with an upset of No. 20 Florida, 38-31, behind 174 yards and 2 TDs from Jerious Norwood. 127 ALL-TIME RESULTS W.M. DAN W.D. MATHEWS MARTIN CHADWICK (1895) (1903-06) (1909-13) YRS W L T PCT. YRS W L T PCT. YRS W L T PCT. 1 0 2 0 .000 4 10 12 3 .479 5 29 12 2 .698 1895 (0-2) 1903 (3-0-2) 0-0 H • 0-2 A • 0-0 N W.M. Matthews 1-0 H • 1-0-2 A • 1-0 N Dan Martin 1909 (5-4) 11/16 at Union . 0-21 L 10/16 Alabama (@ Columbus) [Fri.] 11-0 W 3-0 H • 0-3 A • 2-1 N W.D. Chadwick 12/7 at Memphis Athletic Club . 0-16 L 10/24 at Meridian Athletic Club . 43-0 W 10/2 BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN . 21-0 W 11/7 LSU . 11-0 W 10/9 CUMBERLAND . 34-6 W 11/14 at Mississippi . 6-6 T 10/16 at LSU . 0-15 L J.B. 12/5 at Tulane . 0-0 T 10/22 S’Western (@ Columbus) [Fri.] 31-0 W HILDEBRAND 10/30 at Tulane . 0-2 L 1904 (2-5) 11/2 Union (@ Columbus) [Tue.] . 25-0 W (1896) 2-1 H • 0-1 A • 0-3 N Dan Martin 11/8 at Howard [Mon.] . 0-6 L YRS W L T PCT. 10/1 Vanderbilt (@ Columbus) . 0-30 L 11/13 CHATTANOOGA . 37-6 W 11/25 Mississippi (@ Jackson) [Thu.] . 5-9 L 1 0 4 0 .000 10/15 Alabama (@ Columbus) . 0-6 L 10/22 Mississippi (@ Columbus) . 5-17 L 10/29 at Tulane . 0-10 L 1910 (7-2) 11/11 TENNESSEE MED. COLL. [Fri.] 59-0 W 5-0 H • 1-1 A • 1-1 N W.D. Chadwick 1896 (0-4) 11/18 CUMBERLAND [Fri.] . 5-27 L 10/1 MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE . 24-0 W 0-1 H • 0-3 A • 0-0 N J.B.