Perry Moss

Perry Moss
Sport(s) Football, baseball
Biographical details
Born August 4, 1926(1926-08-04)
Place of birth Tulsa, Oklahoma
Playing career
Football
1944
1946–1947
1948

Tulsa
Illinois
Green Bay Packers
Position(s) Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1955–1957
1958
1959
1960–1962
1968
1991–1997

Baseball
1955

Miami (FL) (backfield)
Wisconsin (backfield)
Florida State
Montreal Alouettes
Marshall
Orlando Predators


Miami (FL)
Head coaching record
Overall 4–15–1 (college football)
59–25 (AFL)
15–7 (college baseball)
Statistics
College Football Data Warehouse

Perry Lee Moss (born August 4, 1926) is a former American football football player, coach, and executive. Moss played tailback at the University of Tulsa and quarterback at Illinois during the 1940s. As a Tulsa tailback, he was on the Orange Bowl team that beat Georgia Tech, 26–12, in the 1945 Orange Bowl and later as an Illinois T-quarterback, he directed a Rose Bowl team which routed UCLA, 45–14, in 1947. Moss served two years in the United States Air Force between his playing time at Tulsa and Illinois. At Illinois, he was named to All-Big Ten Conference and All-American teams. He was drafted in 1948 by the Green Bay Packers in the 13th round (111th pick overall) and played at the professional level for one year before returning to Illinois as an assistant.

Moss served as head baseball coach and backfield coach at the University of Miami in 1955 and University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1958. In 1959, he was named as the head football coach and athletic director at Florida State, and compiled a 4–6 record and later at Marshall University in 1968 where he compiled an 0–9–1 record before resigning in the wake of NCAA recruiting violations. From 1960 through 1962 he was head coach of the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League. In the mid-1960s and again in the early 1980s he coached the West Virginia Rockets of the semi-pro American Football Association. In 1991, he was named as first coach of the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League and compiled a record of 59–25 before leaving the team in 1997.

Moss is a member of the Florida Sports Hall of Fame.

Contents

Head coaching record

College football

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Florida State Seminoles (NCAA University Division Independent) (1959)
1959 Florida State 4–6
Florida State: 4–6
Marshall Thundering Herd (Mid-American Conference) (1968)
1968 Marshall 0–9–1 0–6 7th
Marshall: 0–9–1 0–6
Total: 4–15–1

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