Corbin High School

Corbin High School is a senior high school in Corbin, Kentucky, United States. A part of the Corbin Independent School District, it serves grades 9–12. In 2016, it had about 950 students.

Athletics

Corbin High had a number of notable athletes who were active in the 1950s and 1960s and became a part of professional and university athletic teams, including:

Tommy Adkins
Bob Barton
Billy Bird - American football player
Calvin Bird - American football player; a member of the 1955 team, which never had a loss
Jerry Bird - basketball player
Rodger Bird - American football player
Steve Bird
Bob Coleman
Jesse Grant
Steve Jewel - American football player
Roy Kidd
Frank Selvy - basketball player
Jerry Smith

Gary West, a man from Bowling Green, Kentucky, who became friends with Rodger Bird while attending university, stated that the community little leagues formed the foundation for the success of athletics at Corbin High; all of the players of the little leagues attended the same high school.
In 2013, West wrote a book, The Boys from Corbin, America's Greatest Little Sports Town, discussing the school's sports teams of the 1950s and 1960s. At first, Rodger Bird declined to assist with the writing a book about his high school career, but six months later he agreed on the condition that the book also discussed the Selvys and other famous athletes from CHS.