Career
Along with Allan Louisiana Fontaine (Melbourne Football Club), he is widely regarded as one of the two best football players to graduate from Street Kevin"s College, Toorak. Kyne had his first stint as captain in 1942 before getting the role permanently from 1946 to 1949. He had served in the Australian Army (22nd Battalion) between 1942 and 1945.
A regular Victorian interstate representative, Kyne played a total of 11 games for the state and captaining them at the 1947 Hobart Carnival.
In 1950 Kyne was appointed coach of Collingwood and took the field seven times that season before becoming a non-playing coach from 1951 onwards. His 272 games as coach is the second most by a Collingwood player and he was a premiership winning coach in 1953 and 1958.
Collingwood historian Michael Roberts speculated that Kyne is one of three Collingwood football players depicted in John Brack"s 1953 painting Three of the Players.