MSM 324 Jimmy Havard - Southern Miss Football Memories - a podcast by USM Center for Oral History

Jimmy Havard played football for Southern Miss from 1958 to 1962. He recalls making the freshman cut in the summer of ’58.

 In 1961, Havard set a record for the longest punt return in Southern Miss history. He remembers that play and Roman Gabriel, the famous North Carolina State quarterback who tried to stop him.

Years later as the coach for Petal High School, Havard kept a pre-game superstition he got from Coach Vann.

 

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