Robert Kincaid
Before there was David Johnson, Boyd was considered the best running back to ever play for Northern Iowa, starring for the Panthers from 1983 to 1987.
During his time in Cedar Falls, like many Panther football and men’s basketball players, Boyd considered Kincaid, the two programs’ academic advisor, a mentor.
That lesson made Boyd laugh back during his athletic career. It made him chuckle again Tuesday as he remembered Kincaid, who at the age of 76 died Sunday after a battle with cancer.
Kincaid, the Waterloo East Hall of Fame athlete who was also inducted into the Adams State Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014, served UNI football and men’s basketball teams, first under Darrell Mudra and then Terry Allen, before following Allen to Kansas in 1997, and then to Missouri State, all in the same capacity.