Billy Kinard

**Billy Kinard**
Career information
Date of birth:	December 16, 1933 (1933-12-16) (age 78)
Place of birth:	Jackson, Mississippi, United States
Position(s):	DB/HB
College:	Mississippi
NFL Draft:	1956 / Round: 2 / Pick: 25
Organizations
As coach:
1971–1973	University of Mississippi
As player:
1956 1957–1958 1960	NFL Cleveland Browns NFL Green Bay Packers AFL Buffalo Bills
Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com

William Russell Kinard (born December 16, 1933) is a former American football player and coach. He played as a defensive back for the NFL's Cleveland Browns and Green Bay Packers, and for the American Football League's Buffalo Bills.^[1] Kinard played college football at the University of Mississippi before being drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the second round of the 1956 NFL Draft. He played professionally for four seasons and retired in 1960.^[2] Kinard later served as the head football coach at Mississippi from 1971 to 1973 and at Gardner–Webb University in 1978, compiling a career coaching record of 20–14–1.

1 Coaching
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Coaching

In 1970, Kinard's older brother, a former Ole Miss and NFL star, Frank "Bruiser" Kinard, became the athletic director at Ole Miss. He hired the younger Kinard to be the new Ole Miss Rebels football coach. After the third contest of the 1973 season, Johnny Vaught replaced Kinard, returning for his second stint as Ole Miss' athletic director and head football coach.^[3]

References

^ "Packers.com - Billy Kinard". Packers.com. http://www.packers.com/history/all_time_roster/player/kinard_billy_1957-58/. Retrieved January 7, 2009.
^ "Billy Kinard Statistics". Pro Football Reference. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/K/KinaBi20.htm. Retrieved January 7, 2009.
^ "Ole Miss Football History". OleMissSports.com. http://www.olemisssports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=2600&ATCLID=883744&SPID=737&SPSID=87067. Retrieved January 8, 2009.

External links

Billy Kinard at the College Football Data Warehouse

Ole Miss Rebels head football coaches

Alexander H. Bondurant (1893)
J. W. S. Rhea / C. D. Clark % (1894)
H. L. Fairbanks (1895)
John W. Hollister (1896)
No team (1897)
T. G. Scarbrough (1898)
W. H. Lyon (1899)
Z. N. Estes (1900)
William Shibley (1901)
Daniel S. Martin (1902)
M. H. Harvey (1903–1904)
No coach (1905)
Thomas S. Hammond (1906)
Frank A. Mason (1907)
Frank Kyle (1908)
N. P. Stauffer (1909–1911)
Leo DeTray (1912)
William L. Driver (1913–1914)
Fred Robbins (1915–1916)
Dudy Noble (1917–1918)
R. L. Sullivan (1919–1921)
Roland A. Cowell (1922–1923)
Chester S. Barnard (1924)
Homer Hazel (1925–1929)
Ed Walker (1930–1937)
Harry Mehre (1938–1942)
No team (1943)
Harry Mehre (1944–1945)
Harold Drew (1946)
Johnny Vaught (1947–1970)
Billy Kinard (1971–1973)
Johnny Vaught (1973)
Ken Cooper (1974–1977)
Steve Sloan (1978–1982)
Billy Brewer (1983–1993)
Joe Lee Dunn (1994)
Tommy Tuberville (1995–1998)
David Cutcliffe (1998–2004)
Ed Orgeron (2005–2007)
Houston Nutt (2008–2011)
Hugh Freeze (2012– )

Percent sign (%) denotes disputed coaching records. See Ole Miss Rebels football.

Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs head football coaches

George Litton (1970–1974) Oval Jaynes (1975–1977) Billy Kinard (1978) Tom Moore (1979–1982) Ellis Johnson (1983) Woody Fish (1984–1996) Steve Patton (1997–2010) Ron Dickerson (2011–)

Buffalo Bills 1960 Inaugural Season Roster

Persondata
Name	Kinard, Billy
Alternative names	Kinard, William Russell; Kinard, Billy R.
Short description	American football player and coach
Date of birth	December 16, 1933
Place of birth	Jackson, Mississippi
Date of death
Place of death

Billy Kinard

Contents

Coaching

See also

References

External links