Word: mississippi
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Marcus Dupree runs back home to Mississippi...
...selected Oklahoma. Philadelphia had a day for him. The local paper published a commemorative "Marcus Dupree" issue. Highway signs were mounted to declare a new identity, "Philadelphia, Mississippi, Home of Marcus Dupree," and dismiss an old one. "I never thought about being a symbol until everybody started talking about it," he said. "I just thought I'd be another regular running back...
Injured and abused this season, Dupree quit the team two weeks ago and went home to Mississippi. It was not until after he left that the academic counselor for the Oklahoma athletic department, Jin Brown, told a reporter that Dupree had essentially attended no classes this year. In any case, then, why was he still on the team? "When we give a kid an athletic scholarship, it's to represent us in games," Brown said bluntly. "Because he doesn't cut it scholastically, how can you hold him out of games...
Evidently considering Dupree a student worth saving, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi State and Southern Mississippi asked Oklahoma's permission to resume courting Marcus for themselves. Switzer gave it bitterly...
...world can go after him. I don't care." Last week Southern Mississippi got him. Dupree will be eligible to play college football again in 1985. "A 19-year-old quitter left us," Switzer said. No, a 19-year-old symbol...