All major sports were offered, including football, baseball, basketball, track, tennis, swimming, boxing, and wrestling.

In 1923, he was signed by the Chicago Cubs and won a game for them in the 1929 World Series, though the team lost the championship to the Philadelphia Athletics.

On September 25, 1927, a fire, possibly caused by faulty wiring, destroyed the school's main dormitory.

[1] In early 1936, after a visit with local banking officials, Chapman decided to sell the 16-acre campus to the city of Tupelo to be used as a state-sponsored junior college.

On April 5, 1936, the campus was not damaged and the cadets were unharmed by the 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak, one of the most destructive in state history.