Roy Kidd
Kidd in September 2011
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
December 4, 1931 Corbin, Kentucky |
| Playing career | |
| 1950–1953 | Eastern Kentucky |
| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1954 | Eastern Kentucky (SA) |
| 1956–1960 | Madison-Model HS (KY) |
| 1961 | Madison HS (KY) |
| 1962 | Morehead State (assistant) |
| 1963 | Eastern Kentucky (assistant) |
| 1964–2002 | Eastern Kentucky |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1991–1995 | Eastern Kentucky |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 314–124–8 (college) 54–11–1 (high school) |
| Bowls | 1–0 |
| Tournaments | 0–1 (NCAA D-II playoffs) 15–15 (NCAA D-I-AA playoffs) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2 NCAA D-I-AA National (1979, 1982) 16 OVC (1967–1968, 1974, 1976, 1981–1984, 1986–1988, 1990–1991, 1993–1994, 1997) |
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| Awards | |
| 10x OVC Coach of the Year (1967, 1974, 1976, 1981–1983, 1988, 1990–1991, 1997) | |
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College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 2003 (profile) |
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Roy Kidd (born December 4, 1931) is a former collegiate football league player and coach. He served as the head coach at Eastern Kentucky University from 1964 to 2002, compiling a record of 314–124–8. Kidd's Eastern Kentucky Colonels won NCAA Division I-AA Football Championships in 1979 and 1982 and were runners-up in 1980 and 1981. His 314 career victories are second-most in NCAA Division I-AA/FCS history, trailing only those of Grambling State's Eddie Robinson. Kidd was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2003.
Kidd was a star football, basketball, and baseball player at Corbin High School in the Whitley County portion of Corbin, Kentucky. At Corbin, Kidd was a basketball teammate of college All-American Frank Selvy. There is currently a street, Roy Kidd Ave., named in his honor in Corbin. He graduated from Corbin in 1950 after being chosen as a first team All-State football player for the 1949 season by The Courier-Journal of Louisville. Kidd was signed to a football scholarship by Eastern Kentucky State College and played quarterback at the Richmond school from 1950 to 1953. Kidd actually turned down a scholarship to play for Bear Bryant at the University of Kentucky because his favorite sport was baseball and the football coaches at Eastern Kentucky were willing to let him play both sports. Kidd received four varsity letters in football and baseball at Eastern. He established a dozen records as quarterback of the Maroons (each of these has since been tied or broken), was an All-Ohio Valley Conference selection, and was honored as a "Little All-American" choice in 1953. Kidd was also a star center fielder for Eastern, bettering the .300 mark four consecutive seasons. Kidd served as a student assistant on the staff of Glenn Presnell's 1954 Eastern team which went undefeated, won the OVC and lost 7–6 to Omaha in the Tangerine Bowl.
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