Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils Football
The Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils are the college football team representing the Mississippi Valley State University. The Delta Devils play in NCAA Division I Football Championship as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference. Jerry Rice, widely considered the greatest American football player of all time, spent his college days playing for the team.
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Bull: The trouble is Doc, Cole was in front of the gun. The safe place is behind Mississippi when he shoots that thing.”
—Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)
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—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
“Thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell, and what
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—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Donald Hall (b. 1928)