Career
Caveness played college football for the University of Arkansas where he was a Football News first-team All-American in 1963. In his senior season in 1964, he was selected first-team All-America by the American Football Coaches Association, the Associated Press, the Football Writers Association of America, the Newspaper Enterprise Association and The Sporting News. Caveness also spent the 1973 season as a linebacker coach for the Houston Oilers.
He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2010.