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Former Millsaps Head
Football Coach Harper Davis will be honored during Homecoming festivities
October 23 with the renaming of Alumni Field on the campus of Millsaps
College to Harper Davis Field.
Davis, a member of
the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and the all-time winningest coach
in Millsaps football history is also a member of the Mississippi State
University Sports Hall of Fame and a 1989 inductee to the Millsaps Sports
Hall of Fame.
Davis spent 25 seasons
(1964-88) at the helm of the Majors compiling a 138-79-4 record that included
an undefeated 9-0 season in 1980. Davis led the Majors to their first
NCAA Division III playoff appearance, a win against Colorado College,
in 1975. The Majors, 9-2, were defeated by eventual overall winner Whittenburg
University in the semi-finals.
Following an All-Southeastern
Conference career as a defensive back at Mississippi State University
the National Football League's Chicago Bears tabbed Davis in the first
round of the draft in 1950. Davis also played for the Green Bay Packers
in 1951. In 1949 Davis played in the last year of existence of the All-America
Football Conference with the Los Angeles Dons. Davis led the Bears in
interceptions in 1950 and is currently tied with several MSU players for
the season and career lead for most interceptions returned for touchdowns
with two.
A native of Clarksdale,
Davis is entering his 36th season in coaching currently serving as an
assistant football coach at Jackson Academy.
In 1987 he was named
the recipient of the Mississippi's Contribution to Amateur Football by
the National Football Foundation and in 1988 he was the Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation's Toast/Roast honoree.
Call the Millsaps
Athletic offices for ticket information: 601-974-1190. Don't miss the
chance to honor a Mississippi sports legend.
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