WholeHogSports · Nov 19, 2016
Miss. St. milks edge from ritual
Mississippi State cowbells sit silent as fans can only ring them at specified times during games in the second half of an NCAA college football game against Arkansas in Starkville, Miss., Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014. No. 1 Mississippi State won 17-10. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)STARKVILLE, Miss. — The Arkansas Razorbacks practiced all week with the sounds of cowbells played over loudspeakers.
Tonight, the Razorbacks will see how they play with the real thing ringing in their ears.
Arkansas is playing at Mississippi State, where fans ringing cowbells began in the late 1930s or early 1940s and became a common practice by the 1950s, according to the Bulldogs’ athletic department website.