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Marion Kirby

American football coach

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ6765266 ↗
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Marion Kirby was the head football coach for Greensboro College Pride football team from 1997 to 2001. He was the program's first-ever coach and compiled an overall record of 16–32–0. Kirby served as athletic director for Guilford College until 2007. In 2000 he was inducted into the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.

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The public source identifies “Marion Kirby” as american football coach. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Marion, Kirby and American.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2001, 2007, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Marion, Kirby and American providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Marion Kirby” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.