Thomas Ray Mobley Sr. (April 20, 1892 – May 13, 1964) was an American college athletic coach and

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. He served in a number of head coaching roles at the

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–then known as Southwest Louisiana Institute–including head football (1916, 1919, 1921–1930), basketball (1921–1925), and baseball (1922–1927). Mobley played

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(LSU), lettering from 1913 to 1914. He served in the

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during

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, attaining the rank of captain. He was an officer in the Reserve Corps of the Army in 1920. Mobley was the department commander of the

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from 1931 to 1932. He died on May 13, 1964, at a hospital in

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Head coaching record

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