ABOUT BILL

Bill Newcomb was part of the legendary Jackson Junior High School team that went 29-1 in three seasons under Pasadena ISD Hall of Famer Coach Harry Morgan.

Bill was an all-round football, baseball and track star at Pasadena High School, lettering in all three sports. In 1955, he served as co-captain of both the football and basketball teams. As a football standout, Newcomb was well known for eluding defensive players on his way to the end zone and scoring nearly every game. In a hard-fought game against Jefferson Davis High School, Bill and Bert Coan gave the Panthers trouble on offense. William Ford blocked a kick and the ball rolled into the end zone. With 40 seconds left on the clock, Newcomb burst outside right tackle from the two for a touchdown. Pasadena defeated Jeff Davis that day, 9-7. This was the norm for Bill. It carried the Eagles squad to second place in District 8AAAA for the second consecutive year.

Bill was offered four-year scholarships in football and baseball, but decided to continue as a football player in order to play for legendary coach Paul “Bear” Bryant at Texas A&M. He was a fullback and linebacker during the Gator Bowl Game against Tennessee in 1957, Bryant’s last game at A&M. He then transferred to McMurry College, where he started as a fullback and linebacker for Grant Teaff, legendary coach at Baylor University.

At the request of former Pasadena ISD athletics director “Stoney” Phillips, Newcomb was moved to South Houston High by Gerald Myers, PISD athletics director in 1966 to coach football, basketball, baseball, track, golf and swimming. In 1981, Newcomb was named the South Houston High Trojans’ campus athletic director and head football coach, earning district 23-5A football Coach of the Year by his peers.

Newcomb’s dreams of leading the district’s athletics, physical education and health programs became reality in 1989 when he was named the Pasadena ISD assistant athletics director, working his way up to athletic director in 1995.

Newcomb was recognized numerously throughout the course of his career. He was inducted into Pasadena High School’s Alumni Wall of Honor in 1998, the Greater Houston Football Coaches Hall of Honor in 2013 and the Teacher Wall of Honor at South Houston High School in 2013. One of his proudest accomplishments happened in 2004, when the school board named Memorial Stadium “Newcomb Field.”