| Cliff Long | |
| Birth Date: | 5 August 1918 |
| Birth Place: | Edna, Kansas, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Coffeyville, Kansas, U.S. |
| Player Team1: | Coffeyville |
| Player Years2: | c. 1939 |
| Player Team2: | Baker |
| Player Years3: | 1943–1945 |
| Player Team3: | Fort Warren |
| 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) |
| Bowl Record: | 1–0 (junior college) |
| Championships: | Football 1 NJCAA National (1956) 3 KJCC (1953–1954, 1956) 3 KJCC East Division (1949–1951) |
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 a 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.[1]
Long left Coffeyville Junior College in 1957 to become the principal at Roosevelt Junior High School, also located in Coffeyville.[2] 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.[3]
In 1975, Long was appointed commissioner of the Kansas Jayhawk Junior College Conference (KJJCC)—now known as the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC).[4] He served in that role until resigning in 1978.[5]
Long died on August 2, 1999.[6]