He played end at Sewanee: The University of the South in 1906 and 1907 and was selected to the 1907 College Football All-Southern Team.
Kemp served as the head football coach at Texas Christian University (TCU) for one season, in 1910, compiling a record of 2–6–1.
[4][5] Sewanee lost the effective SIAA championship game to rival Vanderbilt on a double pass play then thrown near the end zone by Bob Blake to Stein Stone.
The trick play was cited by Grantland Rice as the greatest thrill he ever witnessed in his years of watching sports.
[7] Lewis moved to Houston around 1939 and worked with the United States Army Corps of Engineers there until retiring in 1953.