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Role
  
American football player

Name
  
Billy Kinard


1959
  
Mainland HS (FL)

College
  
Mississippi

Billy Kinard

Date of birth
  
(1933-12-16) December 16, 1933 (age 82)

Position(s)
  
Defensive back / halfback

NFL draft
  
1956 / Round: 2 / Pick: 25

Place of birth
  
Jackson, Mississippi

Education
  
University of Mississippi

American football player Billy Kinard Died at 84


William Russell Kinard (born December 16, 1933) is a former American football player and coach. He played professionally as a defensive back for the Cleveland Browns and Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) and the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League (AFL) . Kinard played college football at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) 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. Kinard later served as the head football coach at Ole Miss from 1971 to 1973 and at Gardner–Webb University in 1978, compiling a career coaching record of 20–14–1.

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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.

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