FCS School of the Day #4 - Alcorn State
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:02 pm
Alcorn State Braves
Founded 1871
Undergraduate Enrollment: 3,668
Lorman, Mississippi
Southwestern Athletic Conference
Jack Spinks Stadium (22,500)
2008 record: 2-10, 1-6 conference
Alcorn State University was founded on the site originally occupied by the Oakland College, a school for whites established by the Presbyterian Church. Oakland College closed its doors at the beginning of the Civil War so that its students could answer the call to arms. Upon failing to reopen at the end of the war, the property was sold to the state of Mississippi and renamed Alcorn University in honor of James L. Alcorn in 1871, then governor of the state of Mississippi.
The college opened with eight faculty members and 179 students in three buildings on a 225 acre (0.9 km²) campus.
Notable Alumni
Steve McNair
Donald Driver
Medgar Evans
Michael Clarke Duncan
Alex Haley
Founded 1871
Undergraduate Enrollment: 3,668
Lorman, Mississippi
Southwestern Athletic Conference
Jack Spinks Stadium (22,500)
2008 record: 2-10, 1-6 conference
Alcorn State University was founded on the site originally occupied by the Oakland College, a school for whites established by the Presbyterian Church. Oakland College closed its doors at the beginning of the Civil War so that its students could answer the call to arms. Upon failing to reopen at the end of the war, the property was sold to the state of Mississippi and renamed Alcorn University in honor of James L. Alcorn in 1871, then governor of the state of Mississippi.
The college opened with eight faculty members and 179 students in three buildings on a 225 acre (0.9 km²) campus.
Notable Alumni
Steve McNair
Donald Driver
Medgar Evans
Michael Clarke Duncan
Alex Haley