Edgar C. Jones

Edgar Jones

Jones from 1931 Seminole yearbook
Sport(s)	Football, basketball
Biographical details
Born	(1903-12-29)December 29, 1903 Jacksonville, Florida
Died	October 27, 1980(1980-10-27) (aged 76)
Playing career
Football
1923–1925	Florida
Basketball
1924–1925	Florida
Position(s)	Halfback/Quarterback (football)
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1930–1936	Florida
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
2x All-Southern (1924, 1925) University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame

Edgar Charles Jones (December 29, 1903 – October 27, 1980) was an American football and basketball player, college athletic director and banker. He played both sports at the University of Florida in the 1920s and set a Florida Gators football single-season scoring record (108 points) that stood for 44 years. He was the university's athletic director from 1930 to 1936. He later served as executive vice president of Miami Federal Savings and Loan.

Jones was a Florida native who graduated from Jacksonville High School in 1922. While in high school, he was a member of the school's football, basketball, baseball and track teams. He received varsity letters in football all four years and was an all-state player in his senior year. He lettered in basketball during his junior and senior years and was an all-state player as a senior. As a senior, he was also Jacksonville's individual point leader in track.

After graduating from high school, Jones enrolled at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He played at the halfback position for coach James Van Fleet and coach Tom Sebring's Florida Gators football teams from 1923 to 1925. In his first season on the freshman team, the team won the southern crown for freshmen squads. Memorably, he scored all of the Gators' points in a 16 to 6, second-half comeback victory in the rain over the Alabama Crimson Tide in 1923. The scores came on runs of 10 yards around right end, a 12-yard place kick, and a 20-yard run around right end. During his three seasons on the Gators varsity, the team compiled a win-loss-tie record of 20–5–2, the best three-year stretch in team history. As a senior in 1925, he was the captain of the Gators team that compiled an 8–2 record – the best record in the first twenty seasons of the Gators football team. That year, Jones scored a total of 16 touchdowns – eight rushing, six receiving and two kick returns; his 108 points remained a Gators single-season record for 44 years. After the conclusion of the 1925 season, he was invited to play in the inaugural East–West Shrine Game, the first Gator ever invited to a post-season all-star bowl game.