1970 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team

The 1970 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team represented Mississippi State University during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Bulldogs finished 6–5 for the only winning season in head coach Charles Shira's tenure. The 1970 squad included the first two African-American football players on the Bulldogs' varsity team, defensive back Frank Dowsing and defensive tackle Robert Bell.[1][2]

1970 Mississippi State Bulldogs football
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
1970 record6–5 (3–4 SEC)
Head coach
Home stadiumScott Field
(capacity: 35,000)
1970 Southeastern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 7 LSU $ 5 0 09 3 0
No. 4 Tennessee 4 1 011 1 0
No. 10 Auburn 5 2 09 2 0
No. 20 Ole Miss 4 2 07 4 0
Florida 3 3 07 4 0
Georgia 3 3 05 5 0
Alabama 3 4 06 5 1
Mississippi State 3 4 06 5 0
Vanderbilt 1 5 04 7 0
Kentucky 0 7 02 9 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 12Oklahoma State*W 14–13
September 19at No. 14 FloridaL 13–34
September 26vs. VanderbiltW 20–6
October 3GeorgiaW 7–6
October 10Houston*L 14–31
October 17No. 17 Texas Tech*W 20–16
October 24Southern Miss*W 51–15[3]
October 31at AlabamaL 6–35
November 7at No. 10 AuburnL 0–56
November 14at No. 9 LSUL 7–38
November 26at No. 10 Ole MissW 19–14
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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References

  1. Banks, Lacy J. (December 1970). "Black football players in the White South". Ebony Magazine. No. Dec. 1970.
  2. Martin, Charles (2010). Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890-1980. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03551-7.
  3. "State wallops USM". The Delta Democrat-Times. October 25, 1970. Retrieved March 23, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
  4. College Football @ Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 25, 2015
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