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ATHLETICS
Naming rights
—When Panther fans arrived
for the first home football game of the season Sept.
14, they watched the team play on the newly named
Battle Field at Panther Stadium. This summer, the
college honored the contributions of University of
Alabama Athletics Director Bill Battle III to BSC’s
athletics program. He is just one member of the
Battle family who has served and/or supported
Birmingham-Southern for many years. His father,
the late William Raines Battle Jr. ’30, was BSC’s
athletics director from 1952-74 and a professor
of physical education; he was inducted into the
inaugural class of the BSC Sports Hall of Fame
program in 1981, and the coliseum on campus is
named in his honor. Other members of the Battle
family with Birmingham-Southern ties include the
late Dr. Jean Allen Battle ’36, a longtime educator
and the first dean of the College of Education at the
University of South Florida; the late Laurie Battle ’34,
BSC Sports Hall of Fame member and four-term U.S.
representative from Alabama; and Mary Virginia Battle
Mudd, who attended BSC from 1943-44.
Visit
and click the links for football, men’s soccer,
women’s soccer, women’s volleyball, men’s cross country, women’s cross country,
men’s basketball, and women’s basketball or navigate to those sports pages.
Check frequently for stats, rosters, live streams, and more as the fall sports season
continues.
e basketball season opens Nov. 15 with the men playing at home against Spalding
University of Louisville, Ky.
FALL/WINTER SPORTS
SCHEDULES ARE ONLINE
