Richard Stubbs Jemison (September 19, 1886 – January 9, 1965) was an early 20th-century American sportswriter in the South who was for eleven years the sporting editor of the Atlanta Constitution.
[6][a] His uncle was Edwin Francis Jemison, a Confederate veteran who died at the Battle of Malvern Hill at just 17 years old.
"[9] On Georgia's first All-American he wrote, "When you mention football to an Athens fan its definition is Bob McWhorter, and vice-versa;"[10] and McWhorter's "value to the Red and Black team cannot be fully expressed in mere words, or even figures.
By 1917 he resigned to enter the automobile business as a salesman and publicity manager for Poole & McCullough Motor Company, which handled the Dort, Winton Six, and Locomobile in Atlanta.
[15] In 1920, he was appointed advertising and sales promotion manager of the Oldfield Tire Co. in Akron, Ohio.