High School
Calhoun City, 1958-61
- Lettered in baseball, basketball and football
- Started at halfback and defensive back for football teams that won conference championships.
Junior College
East Mississippi Community College, 1961-63
- Played two years of baseball for Hall of Famer Bull Sullivan
- Served as Sullivan’s football manager and sports information director
- Student body president
- Editor, campus newspaper
- Later inducted into EMCC Athletic Hall of Fame, 2010
- Named EMCC Alumnus of the Year, 2011
- Mississippi Community & Junior College Sports Hall of Fame, 2017
College
Delta State University, 1963-66
- Played baseball for the legendary Boo Ferriss
- Football manager for two seasons under Horace McCool
- Served as student sports information director as a senior
- Student senator
- Sports editor of campus newspaper
- M-Club secretary
- Earned B.S.E. ad M.Ed. degrees from Delta State
Sports Information Director
Delta State University, 1966-81
- Became the school’s sports information director upon graduation
- Delta State Alumni Hall of Fame, 2008
- Delta State Distinguished Statesman Award, 1998
- Considered a pioneer in the publicizing of women’s sports
- Delta State Athletics Hall of Fame, 2014
Ole Miss, 1981-2010
- President of SEC SIDs, 1990-91, 1998-2000
- Ole Miss Sports Hall of Famer
- Inducted into Mississippi Sports Writers Hall of Fame, 1997
- Promoted Ole Miss football players to All-SEC, All-America, National Awards and Hall of Fame honors
- Most decorated member of CoSIDA (the national organization of college sports information directors) in the group’s history. He has won all the top awards, including the Arch Ward Award, the Trailblazer Award and Lifetime Achievement Award. He was elected to the group’s Hall of Fame in 1991, and he served as the CoSIDA president 1980-81. CoSIDA honored him in 2010 with the naming of the Langston Rogers Postgraduate Scholarship, a $10,000 annual postgraduate scholarship presented to a minority or female athletics public relations professional.
Did You Know?
- Langston received his first newspaper byline at the age of 9.
- He is now a member of eight Halls of Fames
- He was so small as a Little Leaguer that he was issued the jersey number 1/3.
- Langston is on the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame Board of Directors and is also a member of the NCAA Women’s Final Four Media Coordination Committee.
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