Vaught – Hemingway Stadium Vaught - Hemingway Stadium at Hollingsworth Field is an outdoor athletic stadium located in Oxford , Mississippi . The stadium serves as the home for the University of Mississippi Rebels college football team . The stadium is named after Johnny Vaught and Judge William Hemingway . History . Built starting in 1915 as a federally - sponsored project , a series of expansions and renovations have gradually expanded the stadium and modernized its amenities , allowing the Rebels to play all of their home games on campus . Prior to the early to mid - 1990s , Ole Miss would play many of its big rivalry games , including the heated feuds with LSU , Mississippi State , Tennessee , and Arkansas at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in the state capital of Jackson , located approximately south of the Ole Miss campus ; and to a lesser extent , the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis . The Ole Miss - MSU game , commonly referred to as the Egg Bowl , was held in Jackson every year from 1973 through 1990 before returning to a home - and - home series . Namesake . When the stadium opened , it was named for Judge William Hemingway , a professor of law and chairman of the University ' s Committee on Athletics . October 12 , 1982 saw the addition of legendary Ole Miss coach Johnny Vaught ' s name to the stadium . September 5 , 1998 saw the field named for longtime supporter Dr . Jerry Hollingsworth , bringing the current official title to " Vaught - Hemingway Stadium at Hollingsworth Field " . Expansions and upgrades . The most recent expansion , completed in 2002 , replaced the south end zone bleachers with a rounded bowl , adding luxury boxes and covered club seating in an upper deck , as well as additional general admission seating for students and season ticket holders ; these renovations expanded seating capacity by nearly 10 , 000 , giving Vaught - Hemingway a capacity equal to that of the stadium in Jackson . In August of 2011 the school announced Forward Together , a new capital campaign that would seek to build a new basketball arena and expand the stadium . Phase 1 of the campaign includes renovating the concourses and concession stands at the stadium . Phase 2 calls for the stadium ' s capacity to increase giving it the ability to hold around 70 , 000 fans . This would be done through closing off the north endzone with a structure that would mirror the one added to the south endzone in 2002 . In addition a plaza would be built outside the north endzone to serve as a " front door " to the stadium and celebrate Ole Miss tradition and history . In the summer of 2012 Ole Miss announced that they had received a million dollar gift that was to be used in the Forward Together capital campaign . The school announced in honor of the gift they would start a new tradition and include a bell tower in the north endzone expansion that would be rung before Ole Miss games to let fans know the game is starting soon and after Ole Miss victories . Other notable upgrades include the installation of lights in 1990 , a jumbotron in 1997 and the replacement of the natural grass turf , which had become increasingly hard to maintain , with an AstroPlay artificial turf surface in 2003 . Ironically , the stadium had been among the first in the nation to switch from a natural grass playing surface to artificial turf in 1970 , and then one of the first of those stadiums to switch back to natural grass in 1984 . The field surface was again changed in 2009 from AstroPlay to FieldTurf , making Ole Miss the first team in the Southeastern Conference to play their home games on the surface . Attendance record . On October 10 , 2009 , 62 , 657 spectators were in attendance when the # 20 - ranked Rebels faced the # 3 - ranked Alabama Crimson Tide . The Rebels fell to the Crimson Tide with a final score of 22 – 3 . The previous record was set in 2003 , when the Rebels lost 17 – 14 to eventual national champion LSU in front of a crowd of 62 , 552 . Indoor practice facility . In 2004 , a indoor practice facility and locker room facility was opened . This facility is linked to the existing stadium via a secured , underground tunnel that provides players with gameday access to and from the state of the art training features and expansive meeting areas housed there . Video display . For the 2008 season , Vaught - Hemingway Stadium got a new high definition Daktronics video board to replace the Sony Jumbotron that had been installed in the north Endzone in 1997 . The new board is the eighth largest scoreboard in NCAA college football ( fourth in the Southeastern conference ) , measuring in at by ( 4 , 032 square feet ) . Ole Miss ' board cost $ 6 million , all of which was paid for by Telesouth Communications as part of a multimedia rights agreement with the University .