Edgar C. Jones

Jones was a Florida native who graduated from Duval 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 Duval High School's individual point leader in track. It is also important to note that the 1921 Duval High School football team (graduating class of 1922) was named State and National Champions for the 1921 season. ==University of Florida==

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. 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. He graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Laws degree (LL.B.) in 1926, and was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great." ==Business and athletic administration career==

After earning his law degree, Jones began practicing law in the law office of Giles Patterson. From 1927 to 1930, Jones was employed by the Atlantic National Bank of Jacksonville as publicity director and statistician. a position he held until May 1936. In May 1936, Jones left the University of Florida to accept a position as executive vice president with Miami Federal Savings and Loan. In December 1941 (just after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor) Lt. Commander Edgar C. Jones USNR activated his United States Navy Reserves status and was assigned as Commander (Head of United States Naval Law Enforcement) of the United States Navy Shore Patrol unit at the Naval Base in Charleston, SC. In 1948 Jones became General Manager of Claude Nolan Cadillac in Jacksonville, FL and then in June of 1951 was promoted to become Vice President and General Manager of the (Claude Nolan) Nolan Brown Cadillac dealership offices in Miami and Miami Beach. == See also ==