Bio

Harold Taylor White

Perkinston Agricultural High School & Junior College (1942) / Football
Perkinston Agricultural High School & Junior College (1951-61) / Coach (Football, Basketball), Athletic Director
Whites Crossing, Mississippi

Harold Taylor White's accomplishments on the field are only overshadowed by his positive influence off the field. The Stone County native, who passed away in 1987, came to Perkinston Junior College in 1942 and was a member of that year's Mississippi Association of Junior Colleges-champion football team.

At the close of the first semester, he entered the United States Army Air Corps and served until the end of World War II, attaining the rank of sergeant E-5.

White returned to the college and graduated in May 1947. Four years later he was named head football coach, but his players named him "War Daddy." In his five-year tenure, White managed only a 25-24-2 record, but former players vow that War Daddy's record was no gauge of his contributions.

White's former players bear witness to his guidance. Six of White's former players are already enshrined in either the MGCCC Athletic Hall of Fame or the Alumni Hall of Fame.

White also served as the college's athletic director from January 1957 to June 1961. He is the first person to be selected both posthumously and simultaneously for the college's halls of fame.