MSU Moorhead Athletics

A native of Ironwood, Michigan. Kirby competed in football, basketball and boxing at Moorhead State in the late 1940s. He was named to the All- Conference football team and enjoyed a colorful career as an amateur boxer. For 25 years he was a legendary head football coach at Felton. Dilworth and then Wahpeton High School where he took his team to the state championship in 1972. He is the proprietor of Kirby’s in Moorhead, a well-established hangout for MSU undergraduates.