Coaching and Military Service
After leaving Michigan, Edmunds served as the head football coach at West Virginia University in 1912. He led the 1912 West Virginia team to a 6–3 record.
In March 1913, Edmunds was hired as the head coach of the football, baseball, basketball and track teams at Washington University in St. Louis. He served as the head football coach there from 1913 to 1916.
With the entry of the United States into World War I, Edmunds joined the United States Army. He served as a captain in the infantry starting on August 15, 1917 from CL. He was promoted to the rank of major on September 4, 1918. He was stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana. He was part of the American Expeditionary Forces from June 12, 1918, to January 30, 1919. He was honorably discharged on March 4, 1919.
In September 1919, Edmunds was hired as the athletic director and coach in "all branches of ahtletics" at the University of Vermont. He served one year as Vermont's head football coach.
Edmunds compiled a career college football coaching record of 19–22–2.
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