Go to Hell Ole Miss: Gumbo, 1971. LD 3118 .G8 University Archives.
Melisse Campbell: Who would be their main football rival?
Sheryl Campbell: I believe it was Ole Miss and Alabama. You know Ole Miss and Alabama?
M. Campbell: Was that due to the team, the school, or the coach?
S. Campbell: The . . . Well, Ole Miss was just, you know, they . . . All you heard from the fifties on, going to the games, was chants from the LSU fans, “Go to hell, Ole Miss!” It’s one of the first times I ever heard “hell” in my life [laughs]. Here are all these people just really saying it out loud and screaming it in public. But they did. They were just really had it in for Ole Miss. Why, I don’t know. They just did. There was just an energy charge between the two. They just . . . They just had it in for each other. And Alabama . . . Bear Bryant was such an esteemed coach. He was wonderful to watch. You enjoyed watching him coach a game and . . . The thing about Alabama that really kind of got everybody’s goat was every time their team would make a touchdown, their cheerleaders would get at the end. And I mean, they would get on their knees and they would praise them. I don’t know if they still do this today, but all the cheerleaders would be on their knees lined up at the end, right by where they had scored and they would have their hands up in the air. Then they would all go down and their face would touch the ground. Then they would come up with their hands up in the air. And they were praising their team. Oh, that used to just make LSU so mad! I think that’s why they were a rival. Of course, they were good, too. They beat us a lot, you know.
-- Sheryl Campbell, interviewed by Melisse Campbell, 1993