OLE MISS FOOTBALL VAUGHT-HEMINWAY STADIUM REBELS PHOTO

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This matted piece measures 11 X 14 and comes with a protective sleeve and a cardboard backing and is ready to fit in any standard size ready made frame.

Built starting in 1915 as a federally-sponsored project, a series of expansions and renovations have gradually expanded the stadium and modernized its amenities, allowing the Rebels to play all of their home games on campus. Prior to the early 1990s, Ole Miss would play many of its big rivalry games, including the heated feuds with LSU, Mississippi State and University of Southern Mississippi, at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in the state capital of Jackson, located approximately 170 miles south of the Ole Miss campus. The Ole Miss-MSU game, commonly referred to as the Egg Bowl, was held in Jackson every year from 1973 through 1990 before returning to a home-and-home series.

The most recent expansion, completed in 2002, replaced the south end zone bleachers with a rounded bowl, adding luxury boxes and covered club seating in an upper deck, as well as additional general admission seating for students and season ticket holders; these renovations expanded seating capacity by nearly 10,000, giving Vaught-Hemingway a capacity equal to that of the stadium in Jackson. Long-term plans call for similar improvements to the north end zone, to complete the "bowl".

Other notable upgrades include the installation of lights in 1990, a JumboTron in 1997 and the replacement of the natural grass turf, which had become increasingly hard to maintain, with an AstroPlay artificial turf surface in 2003. Ironically, the stadium had been among the first in the nation to switch from a natural grass playing surface to artificial turf in 1970, and then one of the first of those stadiums to switch back to natural grass in 1984. For the 2008 season Vaught Hemingway Stadium will see a new Video Replay Board that will be the second largest HD screen in the SEC. It measures 84ft x 48ft.

In 2004, the adjacent indoor practice facility and locker room facility was opened, including a full-size artificial turf field.

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