Ole Miss at Vanderbilt

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  The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser, Mississippi, October 14, 1949, page 1

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  Ole Miss Rebels Click With Rocky BYrd’s Hond At The Throttle OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Rocky Byrd brought Rebel rookie foot ball up to the varsity level Saturday when he mounted to the cabin” to quarterback Ole Miss against Vanderbilt’s Commodores. With Commander Byrd’s hand on the T throttle, the Rebs were in command extensively a good part of the route despite their 27–⁠28 defeat. In his first game as a starter, Byrd played en- offense without relief. He held the Rebel express on the ground on So plays, stick ing a grimy mitt into eight passes to break the driving trend. Four went for competitions, for 127 yards, a touchdown, and close range on another score.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Officially, Ole Miss leads 55–⁠40–⁠2; as played, 57–⁠37–⁠2 in the 96 games on file; the official count covers all 99 meetings, counting the 72 since this game.