- Inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 1970.
- Head football coach at Southwestern College at Memphis (now Rhodes College) (1924-1927), Clemson University (1931-1939), and Rice University (1940-1966). Overall football head coaching record: 207-176-19.
- Played one year of minor-league baseball (1925) with the Tupelo Wolves of the Tri-State League (Class D).
- Inducted into the Southwest Conference (SWC) Hall of Fame in 2013.
- Induced into the Clemson University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1979.
- Head baseball coach at the University of Alabama (1929-1930), Clemson University (1932-1938), and Rice Universoty (1945, 1948). Overall baseball head coaching record: 109-108-5.
- There is a street named Jess Neely Drive in Nashville, Tennessee.
- Interred in Mapleview Cemetery, Smyrna, Tennessee.
- Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
- Played football at Middle Tennessee State University (1917) and Vanderbilt University (1920-1922).
- Inducted into the Rice University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1972.
- Inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1966.
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