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After Auburn’s 7-0 win over Mississippi State at Rickwood Field in 1919, Auburn coach Mike Donahue called the Bulldogs (née Aggies) the most unsportsmanlike team he’d ever seen and vowed that as long as he was coach Auburn would never play them again.
At issue? Mostly the promising MMA career of MSU quarterback Claude Russell.
Plainsman editors didn’t want to go into it, not much at least. Yes, Mississippi State played dirty. Yes, it was impossible not to notice (for everyone but the officials). Yes, most of it came from Russell.