We are pleased to present hours of individual interviews that, together, comprise an oral history of Moss Point athletics and the personal human-interest stories that form a rich backdrop to athletic achievements. We’re glad to have captured stories before some would have been lost forever.
Some of the stories you will find collected here provide answers to questions like: Who did people play with on the sandlot, and where were the “sandlots” of old? What games did they play? What life lessons were learned on the field of play? Who were the influential coaches and teammates of our community?
We hope you will spend time watching these interviews and share them with your friends and relatives. And we hope you enjoy the great stories of the history of Moss Point athletics.
Moss Point’s Central High School opened as an all-white public school in 1908 on the site of the current Moss Point High School. Private schools preceded Central High and there is an 1899 news report about what might have been Moss Point’s first high school football team. It was coached by Hubert F. Fisher (1877-1941), who would go on to be the third head football coach at the University of Tennessee. The cedar tree on Weems Street in front of today’s Moss Point High School was planted in about 1933 and was one of two cedars that once framed the old Central High School front entrance walkway.
