Southern Miss Southerners football
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| First season | 1912 | ||
| Athletic director | Jon Gilbert | ||
| Head coach |
Jay Hopson 2nd season, 8–6 (.571) |
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| Stadium |
M. M. Roberts Stadium (Capacity: 36,000) |
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| Year built | 1932 | ||
| Field surface | Sports Exe Momentum Turf | ||
| Location | Hattiesburg, Mississippi | ||
| NCAA division | Division I FBS | ||
| Conference | Conference USA | ||
| Division | West | ||
| All-time record | 577–410–27 (.582) | ||
| Bowl record | 11–11 (.500) | ||
| Conference titles | 8 | ||
| Rivalries |
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs Tulane Green Wave Memphis Tigers UAB Blazers |
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| Consensus All-Americans | 78 | ||
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| Colors | Black and Gold |
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| Fight song | Southern Miss to the Top | ||
| Mascot | Seymour d'Campus | ||
| Marching band | Pride of Mississippi | ||
| Outfitter | Russell Athletic | ||
| Website | SouthernMiss.com | ||
The Southern Miss Golden Eagles football program represents the University of Southern Mississippi in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The Eagles are members of Conference USA and play their home games at M. M. Roberts Stadium in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Southern Miss first fielded a football team in 1912, coached by Ronald Slay. That team posted a 2–1 record.
A. B. Dille coached the Golden Eagles from 1914 to 1916, posting a record of 6–10–1. USM did not field a football team from 1917 to 1919 because of World War I.
Allison Hubert was the Golden Eagles head football coach for six seasons, posting a 26–24–5 record. His Golden Eagles teams were known to be fast and fierce. Hubert departed after the 1936 season to accept the head football coach position at VMI.
After Hubert came Reed Green, who coached USM for a total of nine years, from 1937 to 1942 and 1946 to 1948. His final record was 59–20–4. The Golden Eagles did not compete in football from 1943 to 1945 because of World War II.
During the coaching tenure of Thad Vann, the Golden Eagles became one of the nation's most elite football programs. Vann compiled a 139-59-2 record, had only one losing season in his 20 seasons in Hattiesburg, his last. His 1953 and 1954 Golden Eagles teams upset Alabama and posted records of 9-2 and 6-4, respectively. The Golden Eagles made it to the Sun Bowl in 1954. Vann's 1958 and 1962 teams claim a national championship. Vann retired after the 1968 season and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1987.
P. W. Underwood returned to his alma mater from his post as an assistant coach at Tennessee. Underwood compiled a 31-32-2 record in his six seasons and engineered one of the biggest wins in school history in 1970, a 30-14 upset of fourth-ranked Mississippi.
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