Jerome Evans (American football)

Biography

Jerome Thomas Evans Jr. was a black high school football coach in the state of North Carolina during the 1950s through the 1970s. He became head football coach at Walter M. Williams High School in 1970, later serving as assistant principal. He died on August 13, 1995, in Burlington, North Carolina, United States at the age of 65. Evans began his coaching career as head football, basketball and baseball coach at H.B. Sugg High School in Farmville, NC in 1954 at a time when there were only two football programs in the Pitt County area for African-American youth. In 1957, Evans married Helen Wall. Evans remained at H.B. Sugg High School for seven years, until 1962 when he moved on and became head coach at John Armstrong Chaloner High School in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, taking the school's football team from a 1–9 record to 8-2-1 in his third year.

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