Ray Wedgeworth

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|2|14}}

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| death_date = February 1975 (aged 66)

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| player_sport1 = Football

| player_years2 = 1934

| player_team2 = Birmingham–Southern

| player_positions = Center

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1947

| coach_team2 = Jacksonville State (assistant)

| coach_years3 = 1953

| coach_team3 = Jacksonville State

| coach_sport4 = Basketball

| coach_years6 = 1951—1953

| coach_team6 = Jacksonville State

| coach_sport7 = Baseball

| coach_years8 = 1964—1970

| coach_team8 = Jacksonville State

| overall_record = 3–5–1 (football)
32–14 (basketball)
52–50 (baseball)

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Ray Wedgeworth (February 14, 1908 – February 1975) was an American college football, baseball and basketball head coach. He served in all three capacities at Jacksonville State University.

He attended Birmingham Southern College in the early 1930s, where he played football as a center.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uvwsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-LUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1756,5177202&dq=ray-wedgeworth&hl=en Holman Suspended], The Palm Beach Post, September 22, 1934. Wedgeworth was hired as an assistant to Jacksonville State head football coach Don Salls for the 1947 season. The prior year, Salls' team had gone 3–5–1. In 1947, the Gamecocks posted a perfect 9–0 record.[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ANSB&p_theme=ansb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1291393B79846938&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM JSU celebrates Salls' 90th birthday], The Anniston Star, June 26, 2009.

For two seasons, from 1951 to 1953, he served as the head basketball coach at Jacksonville State. His teams amassed a 32–14 record.[http://www.jsugamecocksports.com/documents/2010/1/26/0910JSUMBB91_116.pdf?id=537 2009–2010 Jacksonville State Men's Basketball Media Guide] (PDF), p. 108, Jacksonville State University, 2009. In 1953, Wedgeworth became head football coach for one season and amassed a 3–5–1 record.[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=4351 Ray Wedgeworth] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101028005302/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=4351 |date=2010-10-28 }}, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved August 17, 2010. At Jacksonville State, he also served as the head baseball coach from 1964 until 1970,[http://www.jsugamecocksports.com/documents/2010/4/22/Base91_134records.pdf?id=708 The Records] (PDF), 2010 Jacksonville State Baseball Media Guide, p. 92, Jacksonville State University, 2010. when he relinquished the post after he was diagnosed with cancer.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cGw1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=HdUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6202,1063485&dq=ray-wedgeworth&hl=en Abbott Finally Wins No. 1,000], Gadsden Times, March 11, 2001.[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=JVNB&p_theme=jvnb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10CE549FCBFCB5D8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Abbott named to Hall of Fame], The Jacksonville News, November 4, 2004. The Jacksonville State baseball team compiled a 52–50 record during his tenure.

At the 1954 Blue–Gray Football Classic, Wedgeworth recommended Florence State Teachers' College flanker Harlon Hill to Chicago Bears scout Clark Shaughnessy. The Bears selected Hill in the 1954 NFL draft, and that season, he was named the National Football League Most Valuable Player by the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA).{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Ronnie |title=Noted. . . |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aQEsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BsgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3229,168355 |newspaper=Florence Times |location=Florence, Alabama |date=June 2, 1970 |page=7 |access-date=March 16, 2023 |via=Google News }}