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About Mississippi StateBasketball
Mississippi State University athletic teams are called Bulldogs, a name earned and maintained over the decades by the tough, tenacious play of student-athletes wearing the Maroon and White. The official school mascot is an American Kennel Club registered English Bulldog, given the inherited title of 'Bully'.
As with most universities, State teams answered to different nicknames through the years. The first squads representing Mississippi A&M College were proud to be called Aggies, and when the school officially became Mississippi State College in 1932 the nickname Maroons, for State's uniform color, gained prominence. Bulldogs became the official title for State teams in 1961, not long after State College was granted university status. Yet references to school teams and athletes as Bulldogs actually go back to early in the century, and this nickname was used almost interchangably with both Aggies and Maroons, since at least 1905.
On November 30 of that year the A&M football team shut out their arch-rivals from the University of Mississippi 11-0 in Jackson, Miss. The campus newspaper, The Reflector, reported: "After the game, filled with that emotion that accompanies every great victory, there was nothing left for the cadets to do but to complete the great victory by showing sympathy for the dead athletic spirit of the University, by having a military funeral parade.
"A coffin was secured, decorated with University colors and a bulldog pup placed on top. It was then placed on the shoulders of a dozen cadets, and the procession started down Capitol Street, preceded by the brass band playing a very pathetic funeral march."
Other newspaper reports of the victory commented on the 'bulldog' style of play by the A&M eleven, and the Bulldog was soon publicly accepted as a school athletic symbol. Accounts of a 1926 pep rally in Meridian, Miss., had another bulldog parading with students.
Use as an official game mascot began in 1935 when coach Major Ralph Sasse, on 'orders' from his team, went to Memphis, Tenn., to select a bulldog. Ptolemy, a gift of the Edgar Webster family, was chosen and the Bulldogs promptly defeated Alabama 20-7.
A litter-mate of Ptolemy became the first mascot called 'Bully' shortly after Sasse's team beat mighty Army 13-7 at West Point that same year, perhaps the greatest victory in MSU football history. But Bully I earned other fame the hard way, in 1939 when a campus bus cut short his career.
Days of campus mourning followed, as Bully lay in state in a glass coffin. A half-mile funeral procession accompanied by the the Famous Maroon Band and three ROTC battalions went to Scott Field where Bully was buried under the bench at the 50-yard line. Even LIFE Magazine covered to the event. Other Bullys have since been buried by campus dorms, fraternity houses, and also at the football stadium.
For years Bully was a target for kidnappers, the last incident occuring prior to the 1974 State-Ole Miss game. The Bulldog team won anyway, 31-13. While early Bullys once roamed campus freely or lived in fraternities, today the official university mascot is housed at the School of Veterinary Medicine when not on duty at State home football games. For all their fierce appearance and reputation, today's mascot bulldogs are good-natured, friendly animals and favorites with children.
A student wearing a Bulldog suit, also answering to Bully, is part of the MSU cheerleading team and assists in stiring up State spirit at games and pep rallies.
About the Stadium
Humphrey Coliseum, the largest on-campus basketball arena in the state of Mississippi, will be the home of Bulldog Basketball for the 30th season during the 2004-05 campaign. Opened in 1975, Humphrey Coliseum has undergone many modifications during recent years to rank as one of the finest multi-purpose facilities in the Southeastern Conference.
Another recent major renovation project, completed in November 1998 by Pryor Construction, Inc., out of Tupelo, Miss., involved the addition of approximately 1,000 maroon theatre-style chairback seats to increase the Coliseum's permanent seating capacity to nearly 10,500. This improvement to the Bulldogs' basketball arena was accomplished with the realignment of the lower-deck seats plus the addition of permanent foldout chairback seats at courtside.
In addition to the Coliseum's re-configured seating plan, an improved lighting system has been added to "The Hump" in recent years with the removal of the original sheet-steel ceiling and the replacement of an open grid of steel catwalks. Additional restrooms were also added to the east side of the facility at the time.
In 2000, Humphrey Coliseum was graced with the arrival of a new hard maple floor, courtesy of the Horner Flooring Company of Dollar Bay, Mich. MSU's basketball playing surface measures 112 feet long and 60 feet wide and is marked with the school's distinctive maroon and white colors.
The following year, a high-directivity distributed loudspeaker system was installed by Sound and Communications, Inc., of Jackson, Miss., to enhance the Coliseum's public address and sound reinforcement system. Also added in recent years has been rotating corporate sponsorship signage at the scorer's table located between MSU's bench area and the visiting team's bench.
Since Humphrey Coliseum opened to the public in time for the 1975-76 basketball campaign, the Bulldogs have won more than 70 percent of their home basketball battles at "The Hump." After ushering in the Humphrey Coliseum era of MSU basketball with an 85-82 victory over Indiana State back on Dec. 1, 1975, the Bulldogs have compiled an impressive 278-113 home record for a .711 winning percentage.
In 1990-91, Mississippi State went over the 1 million mark for overall home basketball attendance with the Bulldogs drawing 100,000-plus fans (102,072 -- 7,852 per game) in a single season for the first time in school history during MSU's SEC Championship campaign. On Feb. 23, 2002, at Humphrey Coliseum, a then-state of Mississippi-record 10,645 fans attended State's 61-59 home win over the Mississippi Rebels in a crucial SEC contest. After nearly drawing 100,000 total fans during the 2002-03 season and setting a new single-season school record by averaging 9,165 fans per home SEC game, the 2003-04 Bulldog squad shattered all existing MSU basketball attendance records en route to capturing the school's first outright regular-season league championship since 1962-63.
In recording at least 12 home wins in a year for the fourth straight season under Stansbury's direction, the 2003-04 Bulldogs established new single-season Coliseum attendance standards for most total fans (111,940), highest per-game average for overall games (7,996), highest per-game average for SEC contests (10,209) and most crowds (6) of 10,000+ fans, along with setting a new mark for the largest single-game crowd (10,735) for MSU's 80-56 home triumph over the Rebels of Ole Miss on Feb. 7, 2004. In a home win streak that began in 2002-03, last year's State squad also set a new all-time Coliseum record with 14 consecutive homecourt victories over the course of two years.
After spending 14 years playing on the Coliseum's original, all-purpose Tartan floor surface, the Bulldogs tipped off the most successful basketball decade in school history to date by having a portable hard maple basketball floor installed prior to the start of the 1989-90 hoops season.
The Coliseum's original hardwood floor received a fresh make-over during the summer of 1995. With artistic contributions by Alan Beam of Arlington, Texas, and Percy Byrd of Birmingham, Ala., Covington Flooring, also out of Birmingham, then added the school's recognizable "M-State" logo to the midcourt area. Also reproduced on the floor at the time were the SEC's modern "diamond" logo as well as a logo design depicting Humphrey Coliseum's popular nickname, "The Hump." All three logos continue to be featured on the facility's current hard maple floor.
Prior to the start of MSU's much-anticipated 1995-96 Final Four campaign, the capacity of State's home basketball arena was increased to 10,000 with the addition of permanent seats around the Coliseum's inner concourse. During the summer of 1996, the Coliseum underwent major renovations to accommodate the MSU athletic department's growing need for additional locker room availibility.
While the portable floor is only visible during basketball game action, a permanent all-purpose Tartan surface also enables the arena to be used for a wide variety of non-sporting events, including university presidential investitures, national conventions, conferences, graduation ceremonies, state-wide science fairs, concerts, and banquets. Such popular recording acts as Tim McGraw, Vince Gill, Garth Brooks, Clint Black, John Michael Montgomery, Reba McEntire, George Strait, Alabama, Tina Turner, Chicago, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett, Sheryl Crow, Billy Joel and Bon Jovi have performed at the Coliseum through the years.
Standing the equivalent of a seven-story building (84 feet), Humphrey Coliseum is 318 feet long and 268 feet wide and was originally constructed from approximately 450,000 red Mississippi-made bricks. Named in honor of George Duke Humphrey, a former Mississippi State president (1934-45), the Coliseum also serves as the home for the Lady Bulldog basketball team and as host to an annual MSU volleyball tournament, in addition to housing some administrative and coaching staff offices.
