Bio

William Harold Wesson

Perkinston Agricultural High School & Junior College (1941-43) / Football, Baseball, Basketball
Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College (1962-66) / Coach (Football)
Corinth, Mississippi

At Perk he played football, baseball, and basketball. He lettered in football and was a back on the 1942 Mississippi Association of Junior Colleges championship football team.

Following three years of service in the Army Air Corps, Wesson attended Mississippi Southern College in Hattiesburg. After graduation, he coached in various Mississippi high schools from 1948 until 1962, including nine years in his hometown of Corinth. His Kosciusko High School team took the 1949 state championship, and he was named Big Eight Conference Coach of the Year in 1951.

On April 18, 1962, the Board of Trustees of Perkinston Junior College approved Wesson for the head coach's position vacated in January that year by Ed Evans. On the same day, at Wesson's urging, the Board hired fellow Corinthian Ken "Curly" Farris as his football line coach. On May 10, 1962, Wesson and Farris, together with George Sekul, whom Wesson had inherited as backfield coach from Evans's regime, became the first complement of football coaches to serve the institution under the appellation "Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College."

In 1966, Wesson joined the central office administration of MGCJC, leaving his head coach job to Sekul. Wesson retired from MGCJC in June 1977 and died September 16, 2000.