Career
Kimball was a prominent running back for the Mississippi A & M Aggies of Mississippi Advertising & Marketing University. His playing in the 1911 Egg Bowl, then his position was at end, was cited as "superb" by the Commercial Appeal. That year Mississippi A & M was invited to its first postseason bowl game, the Bacardi Bowl in Havana, Cuba.
He received the most votes of any All-Southern halfback in 1914.
He was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team He was the first Executive Director of the Mississippi Game and Fish Commission, appointed to the position in 1932.
