Former Alcorn State head baseball coach and assistant football coach Willie 'Rat' McGowan had his and the late William 'Bill' Fosters' plaques unveiled Friday at a Dedication ceremony at the Willie 'Rat' McGowan Stadium and Bill Foster Field.  

       

McGowan thanked many people responsible for the stadium being erected; a process that he says took six years, including trying to get the legislature to approve it. He thanked Congressman Holloway and congress woman Alice G. Clark, along with Billy McCoy and Phillip West, and several others.

 

Family members present were his wife Doris, son Willie Jr., and Felecia McGowan who sang 'Don't Ever Give up on Jesus.

 

President M. Christopher Brown II, PhD, along with Chief-of-Staff Marcus Ward did the unveiling, revealing the first two plaques of this kind in the state of Mississippi.

 

McGowan dedicated 50 years of his life to Alcorn State, winning 711 baseball games, most in the SWAC, won four SWAC East crowns and was voted into the SWAC Hall of Fame last December 2010.