re: Former Miss. State. HC Bob Tyler passes away

Coach Tyler was a great football coach who got completely fricked by the NCAA.

He was also a great High School back in the 1960’s, especially at Meridian High where he was 20-0-1 with the two State Championships in 1966 & 1967. Coached Robert (Give em hell, Robert Bell) at MHS. He and Frank Dowsing were later the first black football players at State.
Also coached George Ranager & David Bailey at MHS. Both went on tremendous careers at WR at Bama under the Bear. Ranager was later a long time SEC football official who was well respected in the league for decades.


One last story. The QB at Meridian High in 1966 was Bob White. He was signed by Johnny Vaught at Ole Miss to be the QB of the future in Oxford. However he suffered a career ending knee injury in an all star game the following summer. That injury allowed a little known QB from Drew, Ms to later become the starter at Ole Miss. The name of the QB was Archie Manning.

RIP Coach Tyler. A fine man indeed and a heck of a good football coach.