William Alexander Curry was born on October 21,1942 and is an American former football player and coach.
21 Facts About Bill Curry
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Bill Curry played professionally as a center in the National Football League.
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Bill Curry played college ball for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and then played in the NFL for ten seasons with four teams: the Green Bay Packers, the Baltimore Colts, the Houston Oilers, and the Los Angeles Rams.
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Previously, Bill Curry served as the head football coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Alabama, and the University of Kentucky.
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Between coaching jobs at Kentucky and Georgia State, Bill Curry was a football analyst for ESPN.
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Bill Curry was selected as a future draft choice by the Green Bay Packers in the final round of the 1964 NFL Draft.
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Bill Curry was selected by the New Orleans Saints in the 1967 NFL expansion draft on February 9 after he was left unprotected by Vince Lombardi who chose to keep Ken Bowman as the Packers' new starting center.
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Bill Curry never saw action for the Saints who traded him one month later on March 6 to the Baltimore Colts along with three draft picks, one of which was that year's first overall selection, in exchange for Gary Cuozzo, Butch Allison and a 1967 seventeenth rounder.
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Bill Curry was the Colts' starting center during their NFL Championship season of 1968, and was viewed as a reliable force on the offensive line, and a team leader as well.
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Bill Curry was dealt from the Colts to the Houston Oilers for Tom Regner and a 1973 third-round selection on January 29,1973.
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Bill Curry learned that he was traded via a collect call from Thomas at the Pro Bowl in Dallas.
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Bill Curry returned to Georgia Tech in 1980 as head football coach.
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Bill Curry then accepted a job as head coach at the University of Alabama.
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Bill Curry suspended Alabama quarterback Jeff Dunn for breaking team rules prior to the 1988 Sun Bowl against Army.
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Bill Curry was honored in 1989 as the SEC Coach of the Year and received the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award.
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Bill Curry called Wimbley to the sideline, grabbed him by the jersey, and lectured him.
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Bill Curry was particularly upset by this since he'd led the Tide to a share of its first SEC title and its first major-bowl appearance since the Bryant era.
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Bill Curry responded by accepting an offer to become the head coach at the University of Kentucky.
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Bill Curry was asked to step down after the 1996 season and was succeeded by Hal Mumme.
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Bill Curry joined ESPN in 1997 as a college football game analyst.
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Bill Curry is married to his grade school sweetheart Carolyn Bill Curry.