Cliff Long

{{Short description|American football coach, college athletics administrator, educator (1918–1999)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Cliff Long | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|8|5}} | birth_place = Edna, Kansas, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|8|2|1918|8|5}} | death_place = Coffeyville, Kansas, U.S. | alma_mater = | player_years1 = {{Circa|1937}} | player_team1 = Coffeyville | player_years2 = c. 1939 | player_team2 = Baker | player_years3 = 1943–1945 | player_team3 = Fort Warren | player_positions = | coach_years1 = 1943–1945 | coach_team1 = Fort Warren (assistant) | coach_years2 = 1946–1948 | coach_team2 = Coffeyville (backfield) | coach_years3 = 1949–1956 | coach_team3 = Coffeyville | admin_years1 = 1975–1978 | admin_team1 = KJJCC/KJCCC (commissioner) | overall_record = | bowl_record = 1–0 (junior college) | tournament_record = | championships = Football 1 NJCAA National (1956) 3 KJCC (1953–1954, 1956) 3 KJCC East Division (1949–1951) | awards = | coaching_records = }} '''Clifford D. Long''' (August 5, 1918 – August 2, 1999) was an American football coach, college athletics administrator, and educator. He served as the head football coach at Coffeyville Junior College—now known as Coffeyville Community College—in Coffeyville, Kansas from 1949 to 1950. He led his 1956 Coffeyville Red Ravens football team to an NJCAA National Football Championship.

Long attended high school in Edna, Kansas and was a three-sport athlete at Coffeyville and Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas. During World War II, he coach football and basketball at Fort Warren in Wyoming. Long returned to Coffeyville in 1946 and was backfield coach for three seasons before succeeding Demp Cannon as head football coach in 1949.<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Cliff Long Takes Coffeyville Job |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-iola-register/150214263/ |newspaper=The Iola Register |location=Iola, Kansas |agency=Associated Press |date=April 8, 1949 |page=8 |access-date=June 28, 2024 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref>

Long left Coffeyville Junior College in 1957 to become the principal at Roosevelt Junior High School, also located in Coffeyville.<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Coach Now A Principal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star/150214509/ |newspaper=The Kansas City Star |location=Kansas City, Missouri |agency=Associated Press |date=March 5, 1957 |page=14 |access-date=June 28, 2024 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref> He later became assistant superintendent of Coffeyville's publics schools until 1964, when he resigned to the take the position of director of extension and alumni public relations at Kansas State College of Pittsburg—now known as Pittsburg State University—Pittsburg, Kansas.<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=To Pittsburg Post |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star/150214541/ |newspaper=The Kansas City Star |location=Kansas City, Missouri |agency=Associated Press |date=June 29, 1964 |page=30 |access-date=June 28, 2024 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref>

In 1975, Long was appointed commissioner of the Kansas Jayhawk Junior College Conference (KJJCC)—now known as the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC).<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Pittsburgh's Long Named to Head Juco League |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-wichita-eagle/150214658/ |newspaper=The Wichita Eagle |location=Wichita, Kansas |agency=Associated Press |date=March 14, 1975 |page=4C |access-date=June 28, 2024 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref> He served in that role until resigning in 1978.<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Jawyhawk Juco Commissioner Resigns Post |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-wichita-eagle/150214623/ |newspaper=The Wichita Eagle |location=Wichita, Kansas |agency=Associated Press |date=October 21, 1978 |page=3D |access-date=June 28, 2024 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref>

Long died on August 2, 1999.<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Clifford D. Long |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-wichita-eagle-obituary-for-clifford/150214753/ |newspaper=The Wichita Eagle |location=Wichita, Kansas |date=August 4, 1999 |page=10A |access-date=June 28, 2024 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref>

==Head coaching record== {{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = Coffeyville Red Ravens | conf = Kansas Junior College Conference | startyear = 1949 | endyear = 1956 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = division | year = 1949 | name = Coffeyville | overall = | conference = 5–0 | confstanding = 1st (East) | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = division | year = 1950 | name = Coffeyville | overall = | conference = 5–0 | confstanding = 1st (East) | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = division | year = 1951 | name = Coffeyville | overall = | conference = 3–0–1 | confstanding = 1st (East) | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1952 | name = Coffeyville | overall = | conference = 1–2–1 | confstanding = 6th | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference | year = 1953 | name = Coffeyville | overall = | conference = 4–2 | confstanding = T–1st | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference | year = 1954 | name = Coffeyville | overall = | conference = 6–1 | confstanding = 1st | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1955 | name = Coffeyville | overall = | conference = 6–2 | confstanding = T–2nd | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = national | year = 1956 | name = Coffeyville | overall = 11–0–1 | conference = 8–0 | confstanding = 1st | bowlname = National Bowl | bowloutcome = W | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Coffeyville | overall = | confrecord = 38–7–2 }} {{CFB Yearly Record End | overall = | bowls = no | poll = no | polltype = }} <ref>{{cite web |author= |title=Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference All-Time Football Standings |url=https://www.kjccc.org/sports/Scanned_Records/Scanned_Football/KJCCC_All-Time_Football_Standing_Composite.pdf |publisher=Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference |pages=2–3 |access-date=June 28, 2024 }}</ref>

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