Samuel H. "Harry" Hess was an American college football and college baseball coach. He was the second head football at Fairmount College—now known as Wichita State University—in Wichita, Kansas, serving for three seasons, from 1899 to 1901, and compiling a record of 10–10–2. Hess was also the head baseball coach at Fairmount from 1899 to 1901. In 1902, he coached football at Friends University in Wichita.