Vance Bedford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American college football player, college football coach
Date of Birth: 20-Aug-1958
Place of Birth: Beaumont, Texas, United States
Profession: American football player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Vance Bedford
- Vance Juano Bedford (born August 20, 1958) is an American football coach who last served as defensive coordinator at the University of Texas at Austin for head coach Charlie Strong.
- He was previously the defensive coordinator at the University of Louisville, where he also served under head coach Charlie Strong.
- He had served as defensive back coach at the University of Florida under Urban Meyer.
- He previously served as defensive backs coach under Lloyd Carr at the University of Michigan.
- He served in that same position for six seasons with the Chicago Bears, and also served two seasons as defensive coordinator at Oklahoma State University-Stillwater. Bedford was born in Beaumont, Texas.
- He played high-school football at Hebert High School, where his father Leon Bedford was coach and he was an all-District player for the first all-black high school in Texas to win a University Interscholastic League state title.He played college football at the University of Texas at Austin where he was a four-year letterman and starter at cornerback as well as the defensive captain.
- He was a two-time All-Southwest Conference second team selection.
- He played in two Cotton Bowls and two Sun Bowls.
- He set a then-Longhorn season record for pass breakups with 22 in 1981 and is currently in the top ten on UT's career pass breakup list (47).
- At the end of his senior year, he was named a Defensive Valuable Player in the 1982 Senior Bowl All-Star Game.
- He returned to Texas to receive his diploma in 1984. Bedford was in the fifth round of the NFL draft.
- He played one season for the NFL's St.
- Louis Cardinals in 1982 and another for the USFL's Oklahoma Outlaws in 1984.
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