Frank Moseley

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Frank Moseley

Sport(s)	Football, baseball
Biographical details
Born	(1911-04-22)April 22, 1911 Montgomery, Alabama
Died	July 31, 1979(1979-07-31) (aged 68)
Playing career
Football 1931–1933	Alabama
Position(s)	Halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football 1945 1946–1950 1951–1960 Baseball 1939–1941 1946 1948–1950	Maryland (assistant) Kentucky (backfield) Virginia Tech Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1951–1978	Virginia Tech
Head coaching record
Overall	54–42–4 (football) 60–55–1 (baseball)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse

Frank O'Rear Moseley (April 22, 1911 – July 31, 1979) was an American football player and coach, baseball coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1951 to 1960, compiling a record of 54–42–4. His best season at Virginia Tech came in 1954, when his team went 8–0–1. Moselely was also the head baseball coach at the University of Kentucky (1939–1941, 1946, 1948–1950), tallying a mark of 60–55–1. In addition, he served as the athletic director at Virginia tech from 1951 to 1978, during which time he hired Jerry Claiborne, his successor as head football coach. Moseley was born in Montgomery, Alabama and died on July 31, 1979.^[1] He was elected to the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame as an inaugural member in 1982.^[2]

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	AP^#
Virginia Tech Hokies (Southern Conference) (1951–1960)
1951	Virginia Tech	2–8	1–7	17th
1952	Virginia Tech	5–6	4–4	T–6th
1953	Virginia Tech	5–5	3–3	T–5th
1954	Virginia Tech	8–0–1	3–0–1	3rd	16
1955	Virginia Tech	6–3–1	2–1–1	2nd
1956	Virginia Tech	7–2–1	3–0	2nd
1957	Virginia Tech	4–6	1–3	T–7th
1958	Virginia Tech	5–4–1	3–1	2nd
1959	Virginia Tech	6–4	3–1	3rd
1960	Virginia Tech	6–4	4–2	T–2nd
Virginia Tech:		54–42–4	27–22–2
Total:		54–42–4
^#Rankings from final AP Poll.

References

↑ AP (August 1, 1979). "Frank Moseley dies". The Tuscaloosa News. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
↑ "Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame". hokiesports.com. Retrieved July 13, 2011.

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Kentucky Wildcats head baseball coaches

Unknown (1896–1897)
No team (1898–1902)
G. L. Byroade (1903)
A. A. Gordon (1904)
W. C. Kelly (1905)
H. E. Reed (1906)
F. C. Paullin (1907)
C. M. Leaphart (1908)
Unknown (1909–1910)
Frank Engel (1911–1913)
Alpha Brummage (1914–1915)
Bill Tuttle (1916)
J. B. Fledge (1917)
No team (1918)
Unknown (1919)
Andrew Gill (1920–1921)
Jim Park (1922)
C. E. Barger (1923–1924)
Fred J. Murphy (1925–1926)
John Devereaux (1927)
Fred Major (1928)
John Devereaux (1929–1931)
No team (1932–1933)
John Devereaux (1934)
No team (1935–1938)
Frank Moseley (1939–1941)
Bill Black (1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Frank Moseley (1946)
Harry Lancaster (1947)
Frank Moseley (1948–1950)
Harry Lancaster (1951–1965)
J. R. Shannon (1966–1969)
Dick Parsons (1970–1972)
Jordan E. Horne (1973–1978)
Keith Madison (1979–2003)
John Cohen (2004–2008)
Gary Henderson (2009– )

Virginia Tech Hokies athletic directors

R. M. Brown (1908)
Branch Bocock (1909)
L. W. Riess (1910)
No athletic director (1911–1919)
Sally Miles (1920–1934)
William L. Younger (1935–1950)
Frank Moseley (1951–1978)
Bill Dooley (1978–1986)
Dale T. Bauman (1986–1987)
Raymond Smoot # (1987)
David Braine (1988–1997)
Sharon McCloskey # (1997)
James C. Weaver (1997– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim athletic director.

Virginia Tech Hokies head football coaches

E. A. Smyth (1892–1893)
Joseph Massie (1894)
Art C. Jones (1895–1896)
Charles Firth (1897)
J. Lewis Ingles (1898)
James Morrison (1899)
Eugene Davis (1900)
A. B. Morrison, Jr. (1901)
R. R. Brown (1902)
Charles Augustus Lueder (1903)
John C. O'Connor (1904)
Sally Miles (1905–1906)
C. R. Williams (1907)
R. M. Brown (1908)
Branch Bocock (1909–1910)
L. W. Riess (1911)
Branch Bocock (1912–1915)
Jack E. Ingersoll (1916)
Charles A. Bernier (1917–1919)
Stanley Sutton (1920)
B. C. Cubbage (1921–1925)
Andy Gustafson (1926–1929)
Orville Neale (1930–1931)
Henry Redd (1932–1940)
James Kitts (1941)
Herbert McEver & Sumner D. Tilson (1942)
No team (1943–1944)
Herbert McEver (1945)
James Kitts (1946–1947)
Robert McNeish (1948–1950)
Frank Moseley (1951–1960)
Jerry Claiborne (1961–1970)
Charlie Coffey (1971–1973)
Jimmy Sharpe (1974–1977)
Bill Dooley (1978–1986)
Frank Beamer (1987– )

Persondata
Name	Moseley, Frank
Alternative names	Moseley, Frank O'Rear; Moseley, Frank O.
Short description	American football player and coach, baseball coach, college athletics administrator
Date of birth	April 22, 1911
Place of birth	Montgomery, Alabama
Date of death	July 31, 1979
Place of death

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