Hal Moe

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Hal Moe
Title Assistant coach (football)
Head Coach (football, track)
College Oregon State, University of Portland
Sport Football, Track and Field
Born March 28, 1910
Place of birth Spokane, Washington
Died May 26, 2001
Place of death Corvallis, Oregon
Career highlights
Playing career
1929-1932
1933
Oregon State (college)
Chicago Cardinals (NFL)
Position HB
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1933-1942
1946-1948
1949-1952
1952-1958
Oregon State (football-AC)
University of Portland (football)
Oregon State (football-AC)
Oregon State (track)

Harold "Hal" W. Moe (March 28, 1910May 26, 2001)[1] was an American college football player and assistant coach. He played and coached at Oregon State University, then known as Oregon Agricultural College. He played one season in the NFL with the Chicago Cardinals.

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[edit] Playing career

Moe played football at Oregon State. He played halfback from 1929-1932. Upon the conclusion of his career at Oregon State, he played one season in the NFL for the Chicago Cardinals.[2]

[edit] Collegiate coaching

After one season in the NFL, Moe returned to Corvallis, Oregon to become an assistant football coach at Oregon State. He remained with the team in that role from 1933 until the Beavers' appearance in the 1942 Rose Bowl, after which he joined the military and served in the Pacific Theater of World War II.[3].

Following the war, Moe returned to Portland in 1946 and became the head football coach and athletic director at the University of Portland, where he remained until 1948, a year before the school ended its football program.[4] He returned to Oregon State as an assistant football coach from 1949 to 1952, and then became the school's head track and field coach from 1952 to 1958.[5]

[edit] Legacy

Moe was named to the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1982[6] and the Oregon State University Hall of Fame in 1990.[5] He died in Corvallis in 2001.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Social Security Death Index Search Results. Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
  2. ^ Hal Moe Statistics. databaseFootball.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
  3. ^ Obituaries: "Coach" Hal Moe (1910-2001). Oregon State Alumni Association. Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
  4. ^ Football Dropped. University of Portland. Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
  5. ^ a b Oregon State University Sports Hall of Fame. Oregon State Sports Information. Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
  6. ^ Inductees: Football. Oregon Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved on 2008-01-10.