@LSUReport Go for it. Act like your buddy did this weekend. I’m sure @OxfordPolice would be more than happy to provide you with free transportation and lodging.
SEC Bylaw 10.5 – This clearly violated it on at least two provisions
▪ Coaches shall refrain from personal conduct that may incite spectators
▪ All institutional staff shall conduct themselves with honesty/good sportsmanship and behavior shall reflect honor/dignity
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JAMES F. DOOLEY - UNIVERSITY of MISSISSIPPI CLASS of 1862 - COLONEL REBEL
When the War came, James Dooley joined the local Lamar Rifles here in Lafayette County. They became Company G of the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. The University Greys were Company A in the 11th. He was in the Class of 1862, at what we now call Ole Miss. In 1914, the Class of 1862 boys were voted University of Mississippi diplomas by the University Trustees. They were nearly all in their 70's by then. It was a way of honoring those men who never got to finish at the University.
Dooley was 18 when he signed up to fight. At that age, he never owned a slave. He fought at Seven Pines, Gaines Mill, where he was wounded in the arm, Second Manassas, South Mountain, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, and he was captured at Falling Waters, on the Gettysburg retreat. When he was exchanged from a Union prison camp, he joined a Cavalry Company back in Mississippi. That is an amazing record for any man! Both his brothers died in the War.
Dooley was very active in the United Confederate Veterans after the War. He attended many veteran reunions in his gray reunion suit. In the 1930's, while in his 90's he came to all the Ole Miss football Homecomings, in his gray reunion suit. As the oldest living alumni and the oldest Ole Miss Confederate Veteran, Dooley was a celebrity. In 1934 he was THE honored guest at Homecoming! He died at age 98 in 1939.
After Dooley was the honored guest at the Fall 1934 Homecoming, a character named, Colonel Rebel appeared in the 1937 Ole Miss annual. It HAD to be modeled on James Dooley! Colonel Rebel has been at the University one way or another, ever since.
In the late 1990s, in a bid to save Colonel Rebel, my good friend Doctor David Sansing, Ole Miss History Professor, claimed that Colonel Rebel was based on a University Character named Blind Jim, a blind black man, who the University had adopted. Doc quoted a long dead alumni, as having told him that.
Jim sold peanuts at, and in, the Lyceum, he appeared with the cheerleaders at pep rallies, and at home and away games. He had a bed for a short while in the Physical plant. He was married, by an Ole Miss Professor who was also a Pastor, twice on campus with both black and whites attending. He had his house saved by the students and alumni when he got behind on payments in 1933. He attended all the home baseball games. The Freshmen bought him a new suit each year, and they guided him around campus. Jim was a greatly beloved figure here for 60 years. He always said he had never seen Ole Miss lose a game! When he died in 1955, the students and alumni took care of his burial. Having written all this, there is NO way he was ever the model for Colonel Rebel in 1937. As I wrote above, that claim was an attempt to save the Ole Miss mascot Colonel Rebel. It did not work.
This picture shows James F. Dooley as the honored guest at the 1934 Ole Miss football homecoming, wearing his gray Confederate reunion suit. He is wearing his Cross of Honor from the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The University rode him out in a wagon to the 50 yard line at halftime, and introduced him to the crowd.
Hotty Toddy! There you have the TRUE story of Colonel Rebel from my 36 years of Ole Miss research.