Frank Manning "Bruiser" Kinard Sr. (October 23, 1914 – September 7, 1985) was an American football tackle and coach and university athletic administrator. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a charter member in 1951 and into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971. A native of Pelahatchie, Mississippi, he played college football for Ole Miss from 1935 to 1937. He was the first player from any Mississippi school to receive first-team All-American honors, receiving those honors in both 1936 and 1937. Kinard was drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers in the third round of the 1938 NFL Draft and played seven years in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dodgers/Tigers from 1938 to 1944. He was selected as a first-team All-Pro in six of his seven years in the NFL (1938, 1940–1944). After missing the 1945 NFL season due to wartime service in the United States Navy, he played two years in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) for the New York Yankees from 1946 to 1947 and was selected as a first-team All-AAFC player in 1946. Kinard also served as an assistant coach for New York Yankees in 1947 and for the Ole Miss football program from 1948 to 1970, as Ole Miss' athletic director from 1971 to 1973, and as its assistant dean of student personnel from 1974 until 1978. Early years Kinard was born in Pelahatchie, Mississippi, in 1914. His father Major Henry Kinard and mother Pearl (Wooley) Kinard were both Mississippi natives. His father worked variously as a farmer, a laborer, and the proprietor of a lunch room in Utica, Mississippi. Kinard began high school as a freshman at Rolling Fork High School and then played his sophomore through senior years at Central High School in Jackson, Mississippi. The sheriff of Hinds County reportedly recruited Kinard, already an excellent football player, to move to Jackson and offered his father a job as a jailer to facilitate the move. Kinard acquired the nickname "Bruiser" after tackling one of his teammates during a practice scrimmage at Central High School. He was the president of the senior class, ranked in the top third of his class, and graduated in 1933. Kinard had four brothers and two sisters. Two of his younger brothers, George Kinard and Billy Kinard, also played professional football. Football player Ole Miss Kinard attended the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), lettered