Jess Neely

Jess Claiborne Neely was an American football player and a baseball and football coach. He was head football coach at Southwestern University from 1924 to 1927, at Clemson University from 1931 to 1939 and at Rice University from 1940 to 1966, compiling a career college football record of 20717619. Neely was also the head baseball coach at the University of Alabama , at Clemson and at Rice , tallying a career college baseball mark of 1091085. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1971.

Neely was born on January 4, 1898 in Smyrna, Tennessee to William Daniel Neely, Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Gooch. His father died of sunstroke in 1900. His brother, Bill Neely, Jr., was a captain and AllSouthern end on the undefeated 1910 Vanderbilt football team.

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