Bill Kavanaugh
American football player and coach (born 1982)
William Kavanaugh Jr. (born c. 1982) is an American college football coach. He was the head football coach for Bentley University team from 2014 to 2021. He previously coached for UMass Dartmouth, Stonehill, and Penn State. He played college football for Bentley as a defensive end. He is the son of UMass Dartmouth Corsairs football team's former head coach William Kavanaugh.
The public source identifies “Bill Kavanaugh” as american football player and coach (born 1982). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bill, Kavanaugh and American.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q119846359. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1982, 2014 and 2021.
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