[citation needed] He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners, earning consensus All-American honors in 1954.

He was one of several Sooners from Muskogee, Oklahoma High School - along with the Burris brothers (Buddy, Kurt and Bob) and Bo Bolinger - to earn All-Conference or All-American honors in the 1950s.

Boydston coached at Carroll Senior High School in Southlake, Texas in 1964–65 and 1965–66.

From 1966 to 1968, Boydston was head football coach at Stratford High School located in the Texas Panhandle.

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