Early 2000s Team Autographed UNIVERSITY of MISSISSIPPI OLE MISS Rebels FOOTBALL

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Early 2000s Team Autographed UNIVERSITY of MISSISSIPPI OLE MISS Rebels FOOTBALL
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FROM AN OLD AND PROMINENT SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ESTATE, A FOTOBALL SPORTS FOOTBALL RETAINED IN THE ORIGINAL CARTON, SIGNED BY OLE MISS REBEL TEAM PLAYERS.
ONE SIGNATURE IDENTIFIED APPEARS AS #8 CHRIS COLLINS, FROM AMITE COUNTY, LIBERTY, MISSISSIPPI ~ BELIEVED TO HAVE COMMITTED TO OLE MISS IN 2000 AND PLAYED IN TWO BOWL GAMES ~ THE INDEPENDENCE BOWL IN 2002 AND THE COTTON BOWL IN 2003, SIGNING TO THE PITTSBURGH STEELERS FOR ONE SEASON 2004.
ALSO, WE FIND WHAT APPEARS TO BE #55 BEN CLAXTON ~ BENJAMIN CLAXTON, BORN JULY 30, 1980 IN DUBLIN, GEORGIA, IS A FORMER AMERICAN FOOTBALL CENTER. AFTER PLAYING IN COLLEGE FOR THE OLE MISS REBELS, HE WAS DRAFTED BY THE DENVER BRONCOS IN THE FIFTH ROUND OF THE 2003 NFL DRAFT. CLAXTON HAS ALSO BEEN A MEMBER OF THE CLEVELAND BROWNS, MIAMI DOLPHINS, TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS, PITTSBURGH STEELERS, ATLANTA FALCONS, OAKLAND RAIDERS, SEATTLE SEAHAWKS, DETROIT LIONS, AND ARIZONA CARDINALS.
MANY OTHER AUTOGRAPHS, UNRECOGNIZED BY OUR STAFF, OF WHICH THERE ARE NO DEDICATED COLLEGE FOOTBALL FANS.
CONDITION REPORT
> PARTIALLY DEFLATED ~ CARTON RELATIVELY INTACT BUT NOT PERFECT ~ PERHAPS TYPICAL AND MINOR ELEMENTS RELATIVE TO AGE, HANDLING AND MATERIAL ~ OVERALL GOOD VINTAGE CONDITION, BEST NOTED BY EXAMINING THE IMAGES OFFERED.
HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI ~ OLE MISS
The Mississippi Legislature chartered Ole Miss on February 24, 1844. The university opened its doors to its first class of 80 students four years later in 1848. For 23 years, Ole Miss was Mississippi's only public institution of higher learning, and for 110 years it was the state's only comprehensive university.
When Ole Miss opened, the campus consisted of only six buildings: two dormitories, two faculty houses, a stewards hall, and the Lyceum at the center. Constructed from 1846 to 1848, the Lyceum is the oldest building on campus. Originally, the Lyceum housed all of the classrooms and faculty offices of the university. The buildings north and south wings were added in 1903, and the Class of 1927 donated the clock above the eastern portico. The Lyceum is now the home of the university's administration offices. The columned facade of the Lyceum is represented on the official crest of the university, along with the date of establishment.
In 1854, the university established the fourth state-supported, public law school in the United States and began offering engineering education.
With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, classes were interrupted when the entire student body and many faculty from Ole Miss enlisted in the Confederate army. Their company, Company A, 11th Mississippi Infantry, was nicknamed the University Greys, and suffered a 100% casualty rate during the Civil War. A great number of those casualties occurred during Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, when the University Greys made the deepest encroachment into Union territory. Some of the soldiers actually crossed the Union defensive fortification wall, only to be killed, wounded or captured. On the very next day, July 4, Confederate forces surrendered at Vicksburg, Mississippi; the two battles together are commonly viewed as the turning point in the war. When Ole Miss re-opened, only one member of the University Greys was able to visit the university to address the student body.
The Lyceum was used as a hospital during the Civil War for both Union and Confederate soldiers, especially those who were wounded at the battle of Shiloh. Two hundred and fifty soldiers who died in the campus hospital were buried in a cemetery on the grounds of the university.
The university was led, during the post-war period, by former Confederate general A.P. Stewart, a Rogersville, Tennessee native, who was President from 1874-1886.
The university became coeducational in 1882 and was the first such institution in the Southeast to hire a female faculty member, doing so in 1885.
The student yearbook was published for the first time in 1897. As a way to find a name for the book, a contest was held to solicit any suggestions from the student body. Elma Meek, a student at the time, submitted the winning entry of Ole Miss. This sobriquet was chosen not only for the yearbook, but also became the name by which the University is now known. Ole Miss is defined as the school's intangible spirit, which is separate from the tangible aspects of the university. Meek's source for the term is unknown. Some historians theorize she either made a simple diminutive of "Ole Mississippi" or derived it from "ol' missus", African American eye dialect for a plantation's "old mistress."
The university began medical education in 1903, when the University of Mississippi School of Medicine was established on the parent campus in Oxford. In that era, the university only provided two-year pre-clinical education certificates, and graduates went out of state to complete their doctor of medicine degrees. In 1950, the Mississippi Legislature voted to create a four-year medical school. On July 1, 1955, the University Medical Center opened in Jackson, Mississippi, as a four-year medical school. In 1955, the University of Mississippi School of Medicine moved to Jackson where its curriculum was expanded to four years in the brand-new Medical Center. The University of Mississippi Medical Center, as it is now called, is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi and houses the University of Mississippi School of Medicine along with five other health science schools: nursing, dentistry, health related professions, graduate studies and pharmacy.  The School of Pharmacy is headquartered on the Oxford campus.
During the 1930s, an attempt by Mississippi Governor Theodore G. Bilbo to move The University of Mississippi to Jackson, was prevented by then Chancellor Alfred Hume by giving Mississippi legislators a grand tour of Ole Miss and the surrounding city of Oxford. It so impressed the legislators that the move was defeated.
During World War II, UM was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.
Desegregation came to Ole Miss in the early 1960s with the activities of United States Air Force veteran James Meredith from Kosciusko, Mississippi. Even Meredith's initial efforts required great courage. All involved knew how violently Dr. William David McCain and the white political establishment of Mississippi had recently reacted to similar efforts by Clyde Kennard to enroll at Mississippi Southern College, now the University of Southern Mississippi.
Meredith won a lawsuit that allowed him admission to The University of Mississippi in September 1962. He attempted to enter campus on September 20, September 25, and again on September 26, only to be blocked by Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett, who proclaimed that "...No school in our state will be integrated while I am your Governor. I shall do everything in my power to prevent integration in our schools."
After the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held both Barnett and Lieutenant Governor Paul B. Johnson, Jr. in contempt with fines of more than ,000 for each day they refused to allow Meredith to enroll, Meredith, escorted by a force of U.S. Marshals, entered the campus on September 30, 1962.
Segregationists had gathered and rioted at the school; there were more people from around the South than students. Thousands of students, residents from the surrounding area and many from out of state, many armed, were involved. Many Mississippi citizens joined in on "their battle against 'Catholic, Communist, Northern'" intervention in Mississippi white people's business. The protesters swarmed the campus in a violent effort to prevent Meredith's enrollment and enforce segregationist laws of Mississippi at the time.
Two people died during the riot, including a French journalist. One-third of the US Marshals, 166 men, were injured, as were 40 soldiers and National Guardsmen.
After control was re-established by federal forces, Meredith, thanks to the protection afforded by federal marshals, was able to enroll and attend his first class on October 2. Following the riot, elements of an Army National Guard division were stationed in Oxford to prevent future similar violence. While most Ole Miss students did not riot prior to his official enrollment in the university, many harassed Meredith during his first two semesters on campus.
According to first person accounts chronicled in Nadine Cohodas's book The Band Played Dixie, students living in Meredith's dorm bounced basketballs on the floor just above his room through all hours of the night. When Meredith walked into the cafeteria for meals, the students eating would all turn their backs. If Meredith sat at a table with other students, all of whom were white, the students would immediately get up and go to another table.
In 2002 the university marked the 40th anniversary of integration with a year-long series of events. It was entitled, " Open Doors: Building on 40 Years of Opportunity in Higher Education, and included an oral history of Ole Miss, various symposiums, the April unveiling of a 0,000 memorial and a reunion of the federal marshals. It culminated in September 2003 with an international conference on race." That year 13% of the student body was African American, and Meredith's son Joseph graduated as the top doctoral student at the school of business.
The site of the riots, known as Lyceum-The Circle Historic District, was designated as a National Historic Landmark by the United States Secretary of the Interior on October 7, 2008. The district includes:
The Lyceum ~ The Circle ~ Croft Institute for International Studies, also known as the "Y" Building ~ Bernard Hall ~ Carrier Hall ~ Shoemaker Hall ~ Ventress Hall ~ Bryant Hall ~ Peabody Hall
Additionally, on April 14, 2010, The University campus was declared a National Historic Site by the Society of Professional Journalists to honor reporters who covered the 1962 riot. One of the two people killed was a French reporter named Paul Guihard.
The University was chosen to host the first presidential debate of 2008, which was held September 26, 2008. This was the first presidential debate to be held in Mississippi.
The university adopted a new on-field mascot for athletic events in the fall of 2010.  Colonel Reb, retired from the sidelines of sporting events in 2003, was officially replaced by the Rebel Black Bear. All university sports teams are still officially referred to as the Rebels.
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