| Bill Hicks | |
| Birth Date: | 16 May 1940 |
| Player Years1: | 1959–1961 |
| Player Team1: | Baylor |
| Player Positions: | Center |
| Coach Years1: | 1964–1965 |
| Coach Team1: | Texas A&I (line) |
| Coach Years2: | 1966–1968 |
| Coach Team2: | West Virginia (DL) |
| Coach Years3: | 1969–1981 |
| Coach Team3: | Baylor (defensive assistant) |
| Coach Years4: | 1982–1985 |
| Coach Team4: | Howard Payne |
| Coach Years5: | 1986–1988 |
| Coach Team5: | Texas (defensive assistant) |
| Overall Record: | 8–29–3 |
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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 Conference center 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.[5] He then coached at the high school level in Texas, retiring in 2013.