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 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 pictured in The Dial 1954, Central Connecticut yearbook | |
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 19, 1926 Cleveland, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | December 22, 2013 (aged 87) Farmington, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1951–1952 | Shepherd |
| 1959–1961 | Central Connecticut |
| Basketball | |
| 1951–1953 | Shepherd |
| 1953–1959 | Central Connecticut |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1951–1953 | Shepherd |
| 1962–1982 | Central Connecticut |
| 1983–1993 | Albany |
| 1994–? | NECC (commissioner) |
| ?–2008 | LEC (commissioner) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 17–23–2 (football) 92–70 (basketball) |
Moore graduated from Bradley Central High School in Cleveland, Tennessee 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.[1][2]
Head coaching record
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edit| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shepherd Rams (West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1951–1952) | |||||||||
| 1951 | Shepherd | 3–5 | 1–3 | 8th | |||||
| 1952 | Shepherd | 5–3–1 | 1–1 | NA | |||||
| Shepherd: | 8–8–1 | 2–4 | |||||||
| Central Connecticut Blue Devils (Independent) (1959–1961) | |||||||||
| 1959 | Central Connecticut | 2–4–1 | |||||||
| 1960 | Central Connecticut | 4–5 | |||||||
| 1961 | Central Connecticut | 3–6 | |||||||
| Central Connecticut: | 9–15–1 | ||||||||
| Total: | 17–23–2 | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ "Little East Mourns The Loss Of Dr. William M. Moore". Little East Conference. December 22, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2019.
- ^ "William Milton Moore Ph.D." Times Union. Colonie, New York. December 29, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2019 – via Legacy.com.
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