JACKSON, Tenn. – Football has returned to Lambuth.
Each fall from 1985 until 2010, Lambuth University fielded a football team. Once the school fell on financial hard times though it ceased its operations and ended the football program. The University of Memphis stepped in to keep the campus alive, establishing the Lambuth campus in 2011, but until now football hadn't been back.
Memphis head football coach Mike Norvell saw an opportunity to take his team out of its daily routine in Memphis, while connecting the Lambuth Campus and the city of Jackson to the Bluff City.