by Brianne Welch | Sep 29, 2014 | News Slider
This December marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Nashville, and to commemorate the battle, Lipscomb is hosting a variety of events. Much of the battle took place around Lipscomb, and the school sits on a large portion of the battlefield. Tim Johnson, professor of history at Lipscomb and a nationally recognized expert in the Civil and Mexican Wars, has organized different events to mark the occasion, and the events take a look at one of the more unique aspects of the battle. “Something else that most people don’t know about, that is really important, is that more African American Union soldiers fought in the Battle of Nashville than any other Civil War battle,” Johnson said. The battle took place Dec. 15-16, so there will be events through the middle of November. The first event was a kickoff symposium at Historic Travellers Rest on Sept. 18. The next event will be Tuesday Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. in Ward Lecture Hall where a showing of the movie “Glory” will take place followed by a post-movie discussion on heroes. “We have three movies,” Johnson said. “We’re calling it the Civil War on the Silver Screen.” The other two movie dates are Oct. 14 that will show “Lincoln”, and Oct. 28 featuring “Copperhead”. The final day of events is Nov. 15. Professor Johnson said it will be the “really big culminating symposium” that will involve several guest speakers including Pulitzer Prize winning Civil War historian James McPherson from Princeton, Joesph Glatthaar of the University of North Carolina and John Baker, a local historian and genealogist. That event will take place in...
by Hunter Patterson | Oct 23, 2011 | Sports
Ever since Lipscomb and Belmont played their first basketball game in 1953, they’ve been rivals. With the two schools being on the same street just a couple miles away, it was practically inevitable. However, looking back over the history of Lipscomb athletics, you’ll find more than just Lipscomb-Belmont. They were instead, other schools in town. “In the 1950s, East Tennessee State was a huge rival for David Lipscomb College,” said Andy Lane, associate athletic director. In those games, the team would actually get on a train and head to east Tennessee to play. Now, both teams are in the Atlantic Sun, so the fire is still there, but Lane says it was a lot different then. What most students don’t know is that the Trevecca Nazarene game was that game to be at. Known as the “Bleacher Creatures” during the ’80s, Lipscomb fans would pack both McQuiddy and Trevecca’s Trojan Field House so much that actions had to be taken to prevent from breaking any laws. “In McQuiddy, the fans were right on top of you,” Lady Bisons head coach Frank Bennett says. “Those games were as intense as any we have ever had,” Lane says. Communications professor Jimmy McCollum recalls one game where the fire marshal forced Lipscomb to shut the doors on the gym because it had reached maximum capacity. “We had what I believe was a perfect storm for rivalries,” McCollum said. “We had a small gym, we had an excellent team consistently ranked in the top 5 or 10 across the nation in the NAIA and we had not only one but two local rivals...
