Jess Neely, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jess Neely

American football player and coach, baseball coach, college athletics administrator

Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1898

Place of Birth: Smyrna, Tennessee, United States

Date of Death: 09-Apr-1983

Profession: head coach, American football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Jesse Claiborne Neely (January 4, 1898 – April 9, 1983) was an American football player and a baseball and football coach.
He was head football coach at Southwestern University (now Rhodes College) 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 207–176–19.
He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1971. Neely was also the head baseball coach at the University of Alabama (1929–1930), at Clemson (1932–1938) and at Rice (1945 and 1948), tallying a career college baseball mark of 109–108–5.