Bill Snyder (born October 7, 1939) is a retired college football coach and former player. He served as the head football coach at Kansas State University from 1989 to 2005, and again from 2009 to 2018. Snyder initially retired from the position from 2006 to 2008, before being rehired. Snyder retired for the second time on December 2, 2018, and is serving as a special ambassador for the athletics department.\n', '

Snyder was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2015, and won several conference and national coach of the year awards. He was the head coach at Kansas State for the program\'s 300th, 400th, and 500th all-time wins. In recognition of his contributions to the program, the football stadium at Kansas State, Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium, is named in honor of him and his family.\n', '

Bill Snyder was born October 7, 1939, in St. Joseph, Missouri, the son of Tom, a traveling salesman, and Marionetta Snyder. His parents divorced when he was 6; Bill and his mother moved from Salina, Kansas to St. Joseph, Missouri, where they lived in a one-room, second-floor apartment, and Marionetta worked as a sales clerk in a department store while Bill\'s father lived in Omaha, Nebraska. Bill attended Lafayette High School in St. Joseph, graduating in 1957.\n', '

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