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Last Updated: May 14th, 2008 - 11:28:40
Announcements
Museum Receives CAP Grant
The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame & Museum has been named one of 110 national recipients of Conservation Assesssment Program (CAP)grant funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in Washington, D.C.
The grant will help the Museum establish conservation goals that will ensure that the Museum's exhibits are protected and available to the public for years to come.
"We're delighted," said Museum Executive Director Michael Rubenstein . "We want the public to know that we are serious about protecting and promoting our state's rich sports heritage for years to come."
May 13, 2003, 4:02pm
Announcements
Day Inducted in Cotton Bowl HoF
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| Eagle Day accepts his induction into the Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame. |
Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Eagle Day , an All-SEC quarterback at Ole Miss in 1954 and 1955, was inducted into the Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame April 29, 2003 in Dallas, TX.
Apr 30, 2003, 11:50pm
Announcements
Cubs' Great Passeau Turns 94
Claude Passeau, the oldest living member of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, celebrated his 94th birthday Wednesday April 9, 2003.
"I'm starting to get old," Passeau said from his Lucedale, MS home on his birthday, "When I move, I hurt."
A 13-year Major League veteran with Pittsburgh,Philadelphia and the Chicago Cubs, Passeau pitched a 3-hit shutout of Detroit in game 3 of the 1945 World Series, the last Cubs World Series victory. All four of his All-Star seasons were with the Cubs and was the National League's starting pitcher in the 1946 All Star game.
Passeau was born in Waynesboro, MS and he was a multi-sport athlete who earned 12 letters at Millsaps College from 1928-1932.
Apr 9, 2003, 10:58am
Announcements
Rebel Coaching Legend Tom Swayze Dead at 93
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| Tom Swayze |
Long-time Ole Miss baseball coach and football recruiting guru Tom Swayze died Friday January 31, 2003 in Oxford, MS. Services are set for February 3, 2003 in Oxford, MS.
The Yazoo City, MS native earned three letters in football and four in basketball during his college career at Ole Miss in the early 1930's.
After a stint in the Mississippi high school coaching ranks, he returned to Ole Miss as an assistant football coach in 1947, assuming the top baseball job in 1951, a post Swayze held for 20 years.
During his 24 years as a Rebel football assistant, Ole Miss won six SEC football championships with players Swayze scouted, recruited and signed as the South's first football specific recruiter. Swayze's baseball teams claimed four SEC crowns.
Tom Swayze was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1978.
Feb 3, 2003, 12:39pm
Announcements
Art Davis Injured but O.K. After Accident
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| Art Davis |
Hall of Famer Art Davis was injured but walked away on his own power after being hit by a car near his Lake Oswego, OR home January 25, 2003.
Davis, a former MSU All-American defensive back from Clarksdale, MS, suffered a broken nose, crushed sinus cavity, nerve damage to his cheek and upper lip and blurred vision. The accident occured when Davis was hit by a car while walking in a parking lot near his home.
One thing uninjured was Davis' sense of humor. According to his son Doug, who lives nearby, the 68-year old Davis said post-accident "They'd a had to call an ambulance for a lesser man!"
Art Davis is a 1981 inductee into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame.
Jan 28, 2003, 9:52am
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