The Ole Miss out on soccer application unveiled the initial powder blue-accented street jersey in college historical past on Monday afternoon, granting the needs of a significant part of the Rebels’ fanbase.
The white jersey functions powder blue quantities beneath an “Ole Miss” script brand in pink, as nicely as powder blue UCLA stripes on the shoulders and a crimson Nike Swoosh on the still left upper body opposite of the SEC mark.
The jersey will be paired with a powder blue helmet or the white helmet the Rebels debuted in their January 2022 Sugar Bowl reduction to Baylor. It includes powder blue and pink decals and a matching stripe down the centre.
The powder-blue accented road uniform is finish with the similar simple white trousers that Ole Skip has worn with its powder blue alternate jerseys because they were released forward of the 2020 season.
According to our good friend Randy Morgan of the Ole Miss Uniform Archives, the Rebels are 10-5 in the powder blue jerseys in the four seasons considering that, carrying them with the aforementioned white or powder blue helmets.
Ole Skip to begin with wore powder blue helmets from 1948-77, as very well as from 1983-94. They then returned as an alternate in 2014 in honor of former defensive back again Roy Lee “Chucky” Mullins, who was paralyzed throughout a sport in 1989.
Mullins, who died a small additional than one calendar year later on from complications resulting from a blot clot, is one particular of only 4 gamers in college heritage with his variety retired, joining Archie (No. 18) and Eli (No. 10) Manning and Ben Williams (No. 74).