1956 Ole Miss Rebels football team

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1956 Ole Miss Rebels football
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Record7–3 (4–2 SEC)
Head coach
Home stadiumHemingway Stadium
Seasons
← 1955
1957 →
1956 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 2 Tennessee $ 6 – 0 – 0 10 – 1 – 0
No. 4 Georgia Tech 7 – 1 – 0 10 – 1 – 0
Florida 5 – 2 – 0 6 – 3 – 1
Ole Miss 4 – 2 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
Auburn 4 – 3 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
Kentucky 4 – 4 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
Tulane 3 – 3 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
Vanderbilt 2 – 5 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
Alabama 2 – 5 – 0 2 – 7 – 1
Mississippi State 2 – 5 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
LSU 1 – 5 – 0 3 – 7 – 0
Georgia 1 – 6 – 0 3 – 6 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from
AP Poll

The 1956 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1956 NCAA University Division football season.[1] The Rebels were led by 10th-year head coach Johnny Vaught and played their home games at Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi (and alternate site home games in Jackson, Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee). They competed as members of the Southeastern Conference, finishing in fourth with a record of 7–3 (4–2 SEC). They were not invited to a bowl game.

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22North Texas State*No. 13
W 45–07,000[2]
September 29KentuckyNo. 9
W 37–725,101[3]
October 6Houston*No. 6
W 14–026,000[4]
October 13No. 13 VanderbiltdaggerNo. 7
  • Hemingway Stadium
  • Oxford, MS (rivalry)
W 16–028,500[5]
October 20No. 19 TulaneNo. 6
  • Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium
  • Jackson, MS (rivalry)
L 3–1028,000[6]
October 27at Arkansas*No. 10
L 0–1435,500[7]
November 3at LSU
W 46–1735,000[8]
November 10at Memphis State*
W 26–0[9]
November 17at No. 1 TennesseeNo. 19
L 7–27[10]
December 1Mississippi State
W 13–734,000[11]
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Roster

  • FB Paige Cothren, Sr.

References

  1. ^ "1956 Ole Miss Rebels Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
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