I remember the late October Saturday afternoon like it was yesterday. There’s not a Ole Miss football fan who has forgotten that day and who hasn’t felt how it would impact Ole Miss history forever. A linebacker named Roy Lee Mullins made a hit on Vanderbilt receiver Brad Gaines and forever became known simply as Chucky.
The Rebels won that homecoming game against Vanderbilt 24-16. Ole Miss would finish that season with an 8-4 record and Chucky would spend out the rest of his life as a part of the Ole Miss landscape. Forever an inspiration to and for the Rebels and for the thousands who he touched.