"Is the only African-American to design, build, own, and operate a golf course in the world."
1st Team all Tri-County in football
1937- With his brother Berry, formed the first golf team ever at Wilberforce University
1937- Served as Co-captain and made history by competing against Ohio Northern University. This was the first time that a black college and a white college ever competed against each other.
1988- Inducted into the Canton Negro Old-Timers Athletic Association
1992- Recipient of the "Jack Nicklaus Golf Family of the Year"
1992-Recipient of "Cornerstone of Freedom Award" from Dr. Martin Luther King Commission
1996- Inducted into the National Black Golf Hall of Fame
1998- Tiger Woods Foundation began awarding two scholarships to Minerva Students annually in the name of William and Marcella Powell
1999- After being denied a PGA membership in 1962, was awarded a life time membership, retroactive to his first denial.