Clem Daniels

Clem Daniels

No. 36, 33, 34
Position:	Halfback / Defensive back
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1937-07-09) July 9, 1937
Place of birth:	McKinney, Texas
Height:
Weight:
Career information
College:	Prairie View A&M
Career history
Dallas Texans (1960) Oakland Raiders (1961–1967) San Francisco 49ers (1968)
Career highlights and awards
4× TSN All-AFL (1963) MVP 5× AFL All-Star (1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967) American Football League Champion, 1967 All-Time All-AFL Team AFL Rushing Leader 1962 (14 games, 1,099 yds, 5.1 yds/att)
Career NFL statistics
Player stats at NFL.com
Player stats at PFR

Clemon C. Daniels Jr. (born July 9, 1937) is an American former Professional Football star in the American Football League (AFL) who also played in the NFL.

College career

At Prairie View A&M University, he was voted to All-Conference honors during his sophomore and junior years, and captained the NAIA National Football Championship team in his senior year.

Professional career

Daniels was signed as a free agent in 1960 by the AFL's Dallas Texans, who, like other AFL teams recruited players from small and predominantly black colleges, which were mainly ignored by the conservative NFL. He was on the Texans' roster for 14 games in 1960, but saw little playing time behind Abner Haynes. In 1961, he was traded to the AFL's Oakland Raiders, and spent seven years there. He was an American Football League All-Star in 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1967.

In 1963, Daniels was The Sporting News American Football League Player of the Year, with a 5.1 yards/carry average, gaining 1,099 yards. He was the All-Time leading rusher in the American Football League and was selected to the All-Time All-AFL Team.

Career statistics

Rushing att-yards	Receptions-yards	Touchdowns
1146-5138	203-3314	54

Honors

He was voted into Prairie View's Hall of Fame in 1992 and the California Black Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993. He was inducted into the Texas Football Hall of Fame in 1999.

His career accomplishments have inspired a Raider Nation Times writer to do research to be presented at a national conference in San Antonio, Texas, in January 2015. An abstract of the talk/research was posted:

Pattern Recognition and Trends of Senior AFL/NFL Players from HBCUs The presenter will share patterns and trends in the careers of NFL players who were trailblazers and who set expectations and standards in performance data on the playing field. Transitioning to a stable life after professional football has been a challenge for many athletes. The presenter will share information and trajectories of players who have had exceptional accomplishments in their lives after football. Some discussion of the indicators that may influence smooth transitioning from professional football career to careers in other professions will be cited. The statistics, indicators and social-cultural characteristics of NFL players such as Mr. Clem Daniels, former Oakland Raider and successful businessman, will be compared and contrasted with other players in his socio-metric context and age group. The sample group will be drawn from AFL/NFL players who attended Historically Black Colleges and Universities such as Prairie View A & M University and Texas Southern University.

See also

• Other American Football League players

References

Preceded by Len Dawson & Cookie Gilchrist	American Football League MVP 1963 with Lance Alworth Tobin Rote	Succeeded by Gino Cappelletti
Preceded by Cookie Gilchrist	American Football League Rushing Leader 1962 (14 games) 1,099 yds, 5.1 yds/att	Succeeded by Paul Lowe