Ole Miss Rebels
Intercollegiate sports teams of the University of Mississippi / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ole Miss Rebels are the 18 men's and women's intercollegiate athletic teams that are funded by and represent the University of Mississippi, located in Oxford. The first was the football team, which began play in 1893.
Ole Miss Rebels | |
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University | University of Mississippi |
Conference | SEC (primary) Great America Rifle Conference (women's rifle) |
NCAA | Division I (FBS) |
Athletic director | Keith Carter |
Location | University, Mississippi |
Varsity teams | 18 |
Football stadium | Vaught–Hemingway Stadium |
Basketball arena | The Sandy and John Black Pavilion |
Baseball stadium | Oxford-University Stadium at Swayze Field |
Softball stadium | Ole Miss Softball Complex |
Mascot | Tony the Landshark |
Nickname | Rebels |
Fight song | "Forward Rebels" |
Colors | Cardinal red and navy blue[1] |
Website | www |
Originally known as the "Mississippi Flood", the teams were renamed the Rebels in 1936.[2] They compete in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Division I, except for the rifle team, which participates in the Great America Rifle Conference because the SEC does not sponsor that sport.
The school's colors are red (PMS 186) and navy blue (PMS 2767), chosen to mirror the respective school colors of Harvard and Yale.[3] The team's mascot is Tony the Landshark, which replaced the Rebel Black Bear in 2018, which replaced Colonel Reb in 2011.[4][5][6]
Between 1995 and 2004, 630 Ole Miss student-athletes received all-conference academic honors.
Until the women's golf team won the 2021 national championship, Ole Miss was one of only four schools in a Power Five conference that had never won a NCAA national championship (though unlike the other three, Ole Miss had won national championships in football, which are not bestowed by the NCAA).