[3] Edmundson also coached the track teams and served on the NCAA Basketball Committee from 1941 to 1946.

"[4][5] One of the first great athletes at the fledgling University of Idaho in Moscow, Edmundson competed in track for his hometown university and launched the team onto the national stage when he and two other athletes traveled to the Lewis and Clark Exposition Games against the top schools in the Northwest.

[11] Edmundson attended the UI prep school and was a charter member of the new chapter of Kappa Sigma fraternity as an undergraduate.

In March 1999,[21][22] "Hec Ed" underwent a major interior renovation for 19 months and re-opened in November 2000.

He is buried next to his wife Mary Zona Schultz (1887–1980), son James (1924–2000), and infant child (1921) (47°40′02″N 122°17′40″W / 47.66733°N 122.29431°W / 47.66733; -122.29431).

[26] Edmundson was posthumously inducted into the Big W Club, the UW athletics hall of fame, in the first class of 1979.