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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Griffing To Represent Ole Miss As An SEC Legend
9/14/2012 | Football
Sept. 14, 2012
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Co-captain of Ole Miss' undefeated 1962 team, Glynn Griffing has been selected as the Rebels' representative for the 2012 Southeastern Conference Football Legends Class.
The SEC Legends Class includes 14 former SEC stars that have made a name for themselves as great athletes on the playing field.
The class will be honored at the 2012 SEC Football "Weekend of Champions" Nov. 30-Dec. 1 in Atlanta, Ga. The annual SEC Legends Dinner presented by AT&T will be held Nov. 30 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta and the group will also be recognized prior to the SEC Football Championship Game, which will be held at the Georgia Dome on Sat., Dec. 1.
Griffing quarterbacked Coach John Vaught's Rebels to a share of the 1962 national championship as he earned first-team All-America and All-SEC honors. Griffing ended his collegiate career with his Most Outstanding Player performance in the Sugar Bowl as Ole Miss closed out the school's only perfect season with a victory over Arkansas, a game which saw him pass for 242 yards to break Davey O'Brien's 24-year-old Sugar Bowl record for passing yardage.
Selected as the Atlanta TD Club's SEC Back of the Year in 1962, Griffing earned MVP honors in the Senior Bowl and also played in the Chicago All-Star Game and the Coaches Association All-America Bowl. After playing one year with the New York Giants, Griffing retired from the NFL to enter private business.
A member of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and the Ole Miss Sports Hall of Fame, he remains heavily involved in community service in Jackson, Miss., which has included multiple mission trips to Mexico and Honduras as well as to the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.
In addition to Griffing, this year's SEC Legends class includes Paul Crane, Alabama; Pat Summerall, Arkansas; James C. Owens, Auburn; Steve Tannen, Florida; David Greene, Georgia; Sonny Collins, Kentucky; Kevin Mawae, LSU; Walt Harris, Mississippi State; Johnny Roland, Missouri; Ko Simpson, South Carolina; Peerless Price, Tennessee; John David Crow, Texas A&M; and Hunter Hillenmeyer, Vanderbilt.
Previous Ole Miss SEC Legends include Charlie Conerly, TB, 1994; Barney Poole, E, 1995; Johnny Vaught, Coach, 1996; Kayo Dottley, RB, 1997; Archie Manning, QB, 1998; Charlie Flowers, FB, 1999; Robert C. Khayat, L-K, 2000; Ray Poole, E, 2001; Ben Williams, DL, 2002; Billy Ray Adams, RB, 2003; Allen Brown, TE, 2004; Andre Townsend, DL, 2005, Jake Gibbs, QB, 2006; Wesley Walls, TE, 2007; Bobby Ray Franklin, QB, 2008; Jimmy Lear, QB, 2009; Everett Lindsay, OL, 2010; and Deuce McAllister, RB, 2011.
