Career
He is the winningest coach in West Texas Agricultural and Mechanical Buffaloes history. After a successful coaching career at Bartlesville and Cleveland High School in Oklahoma, Kerbel became head coach at Breckenridge High School in 1952. After coaching at Amarillo High School for three seasons, Kerbel became an assistant under DeWitt Weaver at Texas Technical University in 1957.
Kerbel turned the program around, amassing a 68-42-1 record the next eleven years and winning two bowl games, the 1962 Sun Bowl and 1967 Junior Rose Bowl, along the way.
Notable players for Kerbel included Stan Hansen, Mercury Morris, Duane Thomas, and Jerry Don Logan. Kerbel retired in 1971 after the school chose not to renew his contract.
He was succeeded by Gene Mayfield, a native of Quitaque in Briscoe County, Texas. Kerbel died of a heart attack at the age of fifty-one.