Edward James "Ox" Clemons ( – February 27, 1966) was an American college football coach. He served as the head football coach at Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Florida from 1929 to 1931 and again in 1965, Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi for one season, in 1932, Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee from 1936 to 1948, Morris Brown College in Atlanta from 1950 to 1962, and Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi in 1963.
Clemons played football as a tackle, first at Paul Quinn College in Dallas, from 1922 to 1925 under brothers Fred T. Long and Harry Long. In 1926, Chief Aiken, head coach at Atlanta University, convinced Clemons and several other Paul Quinn players to leave Texas for Atlanta. Clemons ultimately ended up at Morris Brown College, where he started alongside Billy Nicks. After coaching at Edward Waters and Rust, Clemons was hired to lead the athletic department at Lane, in 1936.
Clemons died on February 27, 1966, at a hospital in Jacksonville, after a short illness.
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