| Al Clemens | |
| Birth Date: | 1 November 1898 |
| Birth Place: | Scottsboro, Alabama, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Hollywood, Florida, U.S. |
| Player Sport1: | Football |
| Player Years2: | 1920–1923 |
| Player Team2: | Alabama |
| Player Positions: | End |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1924–1925 |
| Coach Team2: | Huntsville JC |
| Coach Years3: | 1926–1928 |
| Coach Team3: | Jacksonville State |
| Coach Years4: | 1930–1931 |
| Coach Team4: | Tuscaloosa HS (AL) |
| Coach Years5: | c. 1934–1942 |
| Coach Team5: | Vicksburg Central HS (MS) |
| Coach Years6: | 1946–1950 |
| Coach Team6: | Southwestern (TN) |
| Coach Sport7: | Basketball |
| Coach Years8: | 1927–1928 |
| Coach Team8: | Jacksonville State |
| Coach Sport9: | Baseball |
| Coach Years10: | 1927–1928 |
| Coach Team10: | Jacksonville State |
| Admin Years1: | 1926–1928 |
| Admin Team1: | Southwestern (TN) |
| Admin Years2: | 1942–1950 |
| Admin Team2: | Jacksonville State |
| Awards: | 2× All-Southern (1920, 1923) |
Albert Hobson "Silent Al" Clemens (November 1, 1898 – May 19, 1993) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach and college athletics administrator.
Clemens played football, basketball, and baseball at the University of Alabama. He also threw the javelin on the track team.
Clemens was a prominent end for the Alabama Crimson Tide football team. He was captain of the 1921 team under Xen C. Scott and again captain of the 1923 team—the first season under Wallace Wade.[1]
Clemens was chosen All-Southern in 1920 by various selectors.[2]
Clemens was one of only two returning starters in 1921, serving as captain.[3]
Clemens played during one of Alabama's first great victories in 1922, over Penn.[4]
In Wallace Wade's first season as head coach and Clemens' second as captain he was again selected All-Southern.[5]
Out of university he coached for Huntsville Junior College.
Before 1930, Clemens was coach and athletic director at the Jacksonville State Teachers College in Jacksonville, Alabama.[6] He boldly scheduled Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association elevens, and only ever lost two games to junior colleges.[7] Across all sports he won 7 junior college titles in 3 seasons.
Clemens was head coach and athletic director of the Tuscaloosa High School Black Bears.[8] He took the position in 1930.[9] After 1931 the team had been unbeaten for seven years (63 games). Coach Clemens challenged any high school in the nation to a game.[10]
He was head coach and athletic director at Vicksburg's Carr Central High "where his teams were the terror of the Big Eight Conference." Clemens resigned to take the job at Southwestern.[11] He was replaced by former Mississippi State football player Gene Chadwick.[12]
Clemens was coach and athletic director at Southwestern Presbyterian University—now known as Rhodes College—from 1942 to 1950.[13] [14] Eight of his basketball players organized a strike against him in 1950.[15]