found:African American National Biography, accessed March 25, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Rice, Jerry; football player; born 13 October 1962 in Crawford, Mississippi, United States; entered Mississippi Valley State (MVS), a small Division I-AA college in Itta Benna, Mississippi (1981); finished ninth in the race for the Heisman Trophy (1984); selected as the sixteenth overall pick in the first round of the 1985 NFL draft; played with the San Francisco 49ers (1985-2000); won the Super Bowl (1989 and 1994); signed with the Oakland Raiders (2000) and retired (2005); held nine Super Bowl records and was named to the NFL's Seventy-fifth Anniversary All-Time Team, and to both the 1980s and 1990s NFL All-Decade Teams; inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame (2006); his alma mater (MVS) renamed its football stadium in his honor (2000); inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio (2010))