[MtnHSFootballFan]

That is news to me. The name Shorty Jamerson rang a bell and while I was researching his career, I ran across an article from 1957 that said he lost the first 32 games of his coaching career at Morehead State and Wheelwright (he was Wheelwright's first football coach) before finally getting a win as Glasgow's coach against Bowling Green. I guess Wheelwright talked him into returning soon afterwards. I had always assumed that he was from Wheelwright, but he actually played at Henderson before attending UK.

I knew he coached at Morehead (didn't know his record) and was Wheelwright's first coach but I didn't know about him coaching Glasgow. Back in the old Wheelwright days there were some awesome teams around including Paintsville, Hazard, Belfry and others. Wheelwright being a smaller school and really a basketball power they weren't super successful in football, but they played and had some very good individual players. Prestonsburg and Wheelwright played every year for the Floyd County Championship and I don't ever remember Wheelwright beating Prestonsburg. Although there were up to 10 high schools in Floyd County at one time (including an African American high school) only Wheelwright and Prestonsburg played football until Allen Central was formed from Martin, Maytown, Wayland and Garrett. I'm pretty sure that Allen Central started football before Betsy Layne and South Floyd.

I think Shorty is the father of Dewey Jamerson who has been an assistant football coach at Prestonsburg and the grandfather of Nick who played at Prestonsburg and is part of the band Sundy Best. I think I'm correct here.