Darrell Royal, and Allyn McKeen. McKeen left as MSU's all-time winningest head coach and is the only MSU coach elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. He hired basketball coach Babe McCarthy who won three SEC championships and defied state authorities to take MSU to its first NCAA basketball tournament in 1963. In 1953, he hired Jack Cristil who would go on to be the "Voice of the Bulldogs" for 58 years. Death and honors Noble died on February 2, 1963, at a hospital in Vicksburg, Mississippi; he was 69 years old. The Mississippi State baseball field was named Dudy Noble Field in his honor in 1949. He became a member of the Helms Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954, he was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1961 and the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1967. Speaking on his time spent in Oxford Dudy Noble once told a Tennessee sports writer: “I already know what hell is like. I once coached at Ole Miss.” Noble once owned a bird dog, a lazy mutt that refused to hunt. Dudy Noble named him “Mr. Ole Miss.” Head coaching record Football Basketball Baseball References 1893 births 1963 deaths American men's basketball players Baseball players from Mississippi Basketball coaches from Mississippi Basketball players from Mississippi College men's track and field athletes in the United States Mississippi College Choctaws football coaches Mississippi State Bulldogs athletic directors Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball coaches Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball players Mississippi State Bulldogs football coaches Mississippi State Bulldogs football players Mississippi State Bulldogs men's basketball players Ole Miss Rebels baseball coaches Ole Miss Rebels football coaches Ole Miss Rebels men's basketball coaches People from Learned, Mississippi Players of American football from Mississippi