William Milton Moore (May 19, 1926 – December 22, 2013) was an
American football coach,
basketball coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at
Shepherd College from 1951 to 1952 and at
Central Connecticut State University from 1959 to 1961, compiling a career
college football
College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.
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record of 17–23–2. Moore was also the head basketball coach at Shepherd from 1951 to 1953 and at Central Connecticut State from 1953 to 1959, tallying a career
college basketball mark of 92–70. He was inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame in 2008.
Moore graduated from
Bradley Central High School in
Cleveland, Tennessee
Cleveland is the county seat of and largest city in Bradley County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 47,356 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Cleveland metropolitan area, Tennessee (consisting of Bradley and neigh ...
in 1944. He earned a Bachelor of Science in health and physical education from
Tennessee Technological University in 1944, a Master of Science in physical education from the
University of Tennessee in 1949, and a Ph.D. in physical education from the
University of Michigan in 1954. Moore died on December 22, 2013, at the age of 87.
Head coaching record
Football
References
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