Team:
Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles
Stadium: Carlisle-Faulkner Field
at M.M. Roberts Stadium
Conference: Conference USA
Sport: College Football
Background: The University of Southern
Mississippi is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
The University was established on March 30, 1910,
and was originally known as Mississippi Normal College,
a college for training teachers. Southern Miss has
multiple teaching sites that include Stennis Space
Center, Jackson County, Keesler Air Force Base, J.L.Scott
Aquarium, Gulf Coast Research Lab, and Pontlevoy,
France.
According to the Mississippi Board of Trustees of
State Institutions of Higher Learning (
http://www.ihl.state.ms.us/),
the University of Southern Mississippi is the second
largest by enrollment of the three major Mississippi
universities. Mississippi State University (
http://www.msstate.edu/)
ranks first in size, and Ole Miss (
http://www.olemiss.edu/)
third. The university is home to a major polymer science
research center (
http://www.psrc.usm.edu/).