Bill Hicks (born May 16, 1940) is a former
American football player and coach. He was the 15th head football at
Howard Payne University in
Brownwood, Texas, serving for four seasons, from 1982 to 1985, and compiling a record of 8–29–3.[1] As a player, Hicks was an All-
Southwest Conferencecenter at
Baylor University in 1961, and was named to the Baylor All-Decade team of the 1960s. Hick began his coaching career as an assistant at Texas College of Arts and Industries—now known as
Texas A&M University–Kingsville and
West Virginia University.[2][3] He returned to the Baylor to coach in 1969 and spent over a decade there as a defensive assistant. He was elected to the Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame in 2017.[4] After leaving Howard Payne, he spent three years on the defensive staff at the
University of Texas at Austin.[4][5] He then coached at the high school level in Texas, retiring in 2013.[4]