- Jess Neely
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Jess Neely Sport(s) Football, baseball Biographical details Born January 4, 1898 Place of birth Smyrna, Tennessee Died April 9, 1983 (aged 85) Place of death Weslaco, Texas Playing career 1920–1922 Vanderbilt Coaching career (HC unless noted) Football
1924–1927
1928–1930
1931–1939
1940–1966
Baseball
1929–1930
1932–1938
1945, 1948
Southwestern (TN)
Alabama (assistant)
Clemson
Rice
Alabama
Clemson
RiceHead coaching record Overall 207–176–19 (football)
109–108–5 (baseball)Bowls 4–3 Statistics College Football Data Warehouse Accomplishments and honors Championships 4 SWC (1946, 1949, 1953, 1957) Awards Amos Alonzo Stagg Award (1967) College Football Hall of Fame
Inducted in 1971 (profile)Jess C. Neely (January 4, 1898 – April 9, 1983) was an American football player and coach of football and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Southwestern University, now Rhodes College (1924–1927), Clemson University (1931–1939), and Rice University (1940–1966), compiling a career college football record of 207–176–19. Neely was also the head baseball coach at the University of Alabama (1929–1930), Clemson (1932–1938), and Rice (1945, 1948), tallying a career college baseball mark of 109–108–5. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1971.
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Playing career
Neely played college football at Vanderbilt University from 1920 to 1922 under head coach Dan McGugin.
Coaching career
Neely began his football coaching career at Rhodes College, then Southwestern University, where he complied an 18–15–2 record from 1924–1927. He was an assistant at Alabama from 1928–1930 and was also head baseball coach there from 1929–1930, totally a 28–15–2 record.
From 1931 to 1939, he coached at Clemson, and compiled a 43–35–7 record. From 1940 to 1966, he coached at Rice, and compiled a 144–124–10 record. This makes him by far the winningest coach in Rice history.
Neely won the first four bowl games he coached: 1940 Cotton Bowl (with Clemson), 1946 Orange Bowl, 1949 and 1953 Cotton Bowls (with Rice). With Rice he lost the last three bowl games he coached: 1957 Cotton Bowl, 1960 Sugar Bowl, and 1961 Bluebonnet Bowl.
After the 1966 season, he returned to Vanderbilt as athletic director. In 1967, he received the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award. In 1999, he was ranked number 39 in Sports Illustrated's list of the "50 Greatest Tennessee Sports Figures of the 20th Century".[1]
Head coaching record
Football
Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Coaches# AP° Southwestern Lynx () (1924–1927) 1924 Southwestern 3–6 1925 Southwestern 7–2 1926 Southwestern 5–4–1 1927 Southwestern 5–5–1 Southwestern: 20–17–2 Clemson Tigers (Southern Conference) (1931–1939) 1931 Clemson 1–6–2 1–4 20th 1932 Clemson 3–5–1 0–4 T–21st 1933 Clemson 3–6–2 1–1 T–5th 1934 Clemson 5–4 2–1 5th 1935 Clemson 6–3 2–1 4th 1936 Clemson 5–5 3–3 8th 1937 Clemson 4–4–1 2–0–1 T–3rd 1938 Clemson 7–1–1 3–0–1 2nd 1939 Clemson 9–1 4–0 2nd W Cotton 12 Clemson: 43–35–7 18–14–2 Rice Owls (Southwest Conference) (1940–1966) 1940 Rice 7–3 4–2 T–3rd 1941 Rice 6–3–1 3–2–1 4th 1942 Rice 7–2–1 4–1–1 2nd 1943 Rice 3–7 2–3 T–3rd 1944 Rice 5–6 2–3 T–4th 1945 Rice 5–6 3–3 T–3rd 1946 Rice 9–2 5–1 T–1st W Orange 10 1947 Rice 6–3–1 4–2 3rd 18 1948 Rice 5–4–1 3–2–1 T–3rd 1949 Rice 10–1 6–0 1st W Cotton 5 1950 Rice 6–4 2–4 T–5th 1951 Rice 5–5 3–3 T–3rd 1952 Rice 5–5 4–2 2nd 1953 Rice 9–2 5–1 T–1st W Cotton 6 6 1954 Rice 7–3 4–2 T–3rd 19 19 1955 Rice 2–7–1 0–6 7th 1956 Rice 4–6 1–5 5th 1957 Rice 7–4 5–1 1st L Cotton 7 8 1958 Rice 5–5 4–2 T–2nd 1959 Rice 1–7–2 1–4–1 6th 1960 Rice 7–4 5–2 T–2nd L Sugar 1961 Rice 7–4 5–2 3rd L Bluebonnet 17 1962 Rice 2–6–2 2–4–1 6th 1963 Rice 6–4 4–3 3rd 1964 Rice 4–5–1 3–3–1 T–4th 1965 Rice 2–8 1–6 T–7th 1966 Rice 2–8 1–6 8th Rice: 144–124–10 86–75–6 Total: 207–176–19 National Championship Conference Title Conference Division Title #Rankings from final Coaches' Poll.
°Rankings from final AP Poll.See also
- List of college football coaches with 200 wins
References
- ^ "The 50 Greatest Sports Figures Tennessee". Sports Illustrated. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/1999/states/tennessee. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
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Alabama Crimson Tide head baseball coaches Shelby Fletcher (1892) • W. M. Walker (1893) • J. H. Lyons (1894) • J. F. Jenkins (1895) • Eli Abbott (1896) • Kid Peeples (1897) • Joseph Black (1898) • F. C. Owen (1899) • Ardis Smith (1900) • Thomas C. Stouch (1901–1905) • Schwartz (1906) • J. W. H. Pollard (1907–1910) • Guy Lowman (1911) • D. V. Graves (1912–1915) • B. L. Noojin (1916–1919) • Gordon W. Lewis (1920) • Charles A. Bernier (1921–1923) • Wallace Wade (1924–1927) • Hank Crisp (1928) • Jess Neely (1929–1930) • Sam Hinton (1930–1931) • Jennings B. Whitworth (1932–1933) • Tilden Campbell (1935–1942) • Paul Burnham (1943) • No team (1944–1945) • Dixie Howell (1946) • Tilden Campbell (1947–1963) • Joe Sewell (1964–1969) • Hayden Riley (1970–1979) • Barry Shollenberger (1980–1994) • Jim Wells (1995–2009) • Mitch Gaspard (2010– )
Clemson Tigers head football coaches Walter Riggs (1896) • William M. Williams (1897) • John Penton (1898) • Walter Riggs (1899) • John Heisman (1900–1903) • Shack Shealy (1904) • Eddie Cochems (1905) • Bob Williams (1906) • Frank Shaughnessy (1907) • John N. Stone (1908) • Bob Williams (1909) • Frank Dobson (1910–1912) • Bob Williams (1913–1915) • Wayne Hart (1916) • Edward Donahue (1917–1920) • E. J. Stewart (1921–1922) • Bud Saunders (1923–1926) • Josh Cody (1927–1930) • Jess Neely (1931–1939) • Frank Howard (1940–1969) • Hootie Ingram (1970–1972) • Red Parker (1973–1976) • Charley Pell (1977–1978) • Danny Ford (1979–1989) • Ken Hatfield (1990–1993) • Tommy West (1993–1998) • Tommy Bowden (1999–2008) • Dabo Swinney (2008– )
Clemson Tigers head baseball coaches R. T. V. Bowman (1896) • No team (1897) • R. T. V. Bowman (1898) • Unknown (1899–1900) • John Heisman (1901–1903) • John McMakin (1904–1906) • Frank Shaughnessy (1907) • Robert Lynch (1908) • Jesse Reynolds (1909) • Joe Holland (1910) • Frank Dobson (1911–1913) • Thomas Robertson (1914) • Vet Sitton (1915–1916) • Country Morris (1917) • Edward Donahue (1918–1919) • Country Morris (1920) • Larry Conover (1921) • L. V. H. Durfee (1922–1924) • Thomas May (1925) • Cul Richards (1926) • Tink Gillam (1927) • Joe Guyon (1928–1931) • Jess Neely (1932–1938) • Randy Hinson (1939–1940) • Tom Rogers (1941–1942) • Frank Howard (1943) • No team (1944) • Walter Cox (1945) • Randy Hinson (1946–1947) • Walter Cox (1948–1951) • Bob Smith (1952–1957) • Bill Wilhelm (1958–1993) • Jack Leggett (1994– )
Rice Owls head football coaches Phillip Arbuckle (1912–1917) • John Anderson (1918) • Phillip Arbuckle (1919–1923) • John Heisman (1924–1927) • Claude Rothgeb (1928) • Jack Meagher (1929–1933) • James Kitts (1934–1939) • Jess Neely (1940–1966) • Bo Hagan (1967–1970) • Bill Peterson (1971) • Al Conover (1972–1975) • Homer Rice (1976–1977) • Ray Alborn (1978–1983) • Watson Brown (1984–1985) • Jerry Berndt (1986–1988) • Fred Goldsmith (1989–1993) • Ken Hatfield (1994–2005) • Todd Graham (2006) • David Bailiff (2007– )
Rice Owls head baseball coaches Phillip Arbuckle (1912–1917) • Jack Coombs (1918) • Pete Cawthon (1920–1921) • Bob Countryman (1922–1923) • Mike O'Neill (1924) • Joe Bedenk (1925–1926) • Dickey Kerr (1927) • Dickey Kerr & Charlie Schwartz (1928) • Gene Bailey (1929) • Danny Allnoch (1930) • John Nemic (1931–1932) • Cecil Grigg (1936–1966) • Jess Neely (1945) • Cecil Grigg (1946–1947) • Jess Neely (1948) • Harold Stockbridge (1949–1952) • Dell Morgan (1953–1961) • Joe Gallagher (1962) • Doug Osburn (1963–1980) • David Hall (1981–1991) • Wayne Graham (1992– )
Amos Alonzo Stagg Award winners 1940: Donald Herring, Jr. | 1941: Butch Cowell† | 1942–1945 No award given | 1946: Grantland Rice | 1947: William Alexander | 1948: Gil Dobie, Glenn Scobey Warner & Robert Zuppke | 1949: Dick Harlow | 1950 No award given | 1951: Tuss McLaughry | 1952: Bo McMillin | 1953: Lou Little | 1954: Dana X. Bible | 1955: Joseph J. Tomlin | 1956 No award given | 1957: Robert Neyland | 1958: Bernie Bierman | 1959: John Wilce | 1960: Harvey Harman | 1961: Ray Eliot | 1962: Elton Wieman | 1963: Andrew Kerr | 1964: Don Faurot | 1965: Harry Stuhldreher | 1966: Bernie Moore | 1967: Jess Neely | 1968: Abe Martin | 1969: Rip Engle | 1970: Pappy Waldorf | 1971: William D. Murray | 1972: Jack Curtice | 1973: Lloyd Jordan | 1974: Jake Gaither | 1975: Gerald B. Zornow | 1976 No award given | 1977: Ben Schwartzwalder | 1978: Tom Hamilton | 1979: Fritz Crisler | 1980 No award given | 1981: Fred Russell | 1982: Eddie Robinson | 1983: Bear Bryant | 1984: Bud Wilkinson | 1985: Duffy Daugherty | 1986: Woody Hayes | 1987: Field Scovell | 1988: Herb McCracken | 1989: David M. Nelson | 1990: Len Casanova | 1991: Bob Blackman | 1992: Charles McClendon | 1993: Keith Jackson | 1994: Bob Devaney | 1995: John Merritt† | 1996: Chuck Neinas | 1997: Ara Parseghian | 1998: Bob Reade | 1999: Bo Schembechler | 2000: Tom Osborne | 2001: Vince Dooley | 2002: Joe Paterno | 2003: LaVell Edwards | 2004: Ron Schipper | 2005: Hayden Fry | 2006: Grant Teaff | 2007: Bill Curry | 2008: Bill Walsh† | 2009: John Gagliardi | 2010: Darrell Royal| 2011: Bobby Bowden
† Denotes posthumous selectionCategories:- 1898 births
- 1983 deaths
- Alabama Crimson Tide baseball coaches
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- Rice Owls baseball coaches
- Rice Owls football coaches
- Vanderbilt Commodores athletic directors
- Vanderbilt Commodores football players
- College Football Hall of Fame inductees
- People from Rutherford County, Tennessee
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