Marshall University Athletics
Marshall Athletics Hall of Fame
- Induction:
- 1985
- Class:
- 1937
Clem “Buck” Jamison was a Cam Henderson man. Recruited out of Glenville (W.Va.) High School to play football and basketball for Henderson at Davis & Elkins College, Jamison followed his coach to Huntington when Henderson was hired by Marshall in 1935. He finished his career with the Thundering Herd. A quarterback and fullback, Jamison was a senior on the 1937 Marshall football team that won the Buckeye Athletic Conference title with a 9-0-1 record. As a member of the basketball team, Jamison helped Marshall to Buckeye Conference crowns in his junior and senior seasons, and garnering the school’s first postseason berth in the NAIB (now NAIA) National Tournament in 1938. Jamison also played two seasons of baseball at Marshall, including Henderson’s only year of coaching that sport at Marshall in 1938.
After graduating from Marshall, Jamison became the head football and basketball coach at Point Pleasant High School, then entered the U.S. Army to serve in World War II, where he was honored with a battlefield commission to Second Lieutenant for his bravery during the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes. After the war he returned to coaching at Point Pleasant and later moved to South Charleston High School, where he coached future Marshall Hall of Famers Cebe Price and Paul Underwood, known as the “Gold Dust Twins.” Jamison served five seasons as the head basketball coach at Concord College before returning to the high school ranks as a coach, official and administrator until retiring from Parkersburg South High School in 1978. Jamison was inducted the Point Pleasant High School Hall of Fame in 2013 and into the Marshall Athletic Hall of Fame in 1985.
