re: Rank the SECw Mascots

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While University of Mississippi historian David Sansing has stated that "Blind Jim [Ivy] may have been the model for Colonel Rebel." This conclusion is not supported by other historical research. Accordingly, William F. Winter Professor of History, Charles Eagles, contends in his book "The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss" that this is clearly not the case. Sansing cites "the late Frank Everett" as the sole basis for this conclusion.[1][2]

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