- Charley Moran
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Charley Moran Sport(s) American football, baseball Biographical details Born February 22, 1878 Place of birth Nashville, Tennessee Died June 14, 1949 (aged 71) Place of death Horse Cave, Kentucky Playing career Football
1897
1899–1901
Baseball
1903
1908
Tennessee
Bethel (TN)
St. Louis Cardinals
St. Louis CardinalsCoaching career (HC unless noted) Football
1900s
1909–1914
1919–1923
1924–1926
1927
1930–1933
Baseball
1909–1914
Carlisle Indian (assistant)
Texas A&M
Centre
Bucknell
Frankford Yellow Jackets
Catawba
Texas A&MHead coaching record Overall 121–35–12 (college football)
2–5–1 (NFL)
48–46–5 (college baseball)Bowls 1–1 Statistics College Football Data Warehouse Charles Barthell Moran (February 22, 1878 – June 14, 1949), nicknamed "Uncle Charley," was an American sportsman who gained renown as both a catcher and umpire in Major League Baseball and as a collegiate and professional football coach.
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Early life
Moran was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and played football for the University of Tennessee in 1897, but left after one year to go to Bethel College, where he coached football as well as playing the sport. After graduating, he became an assistant to Pop Warner at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School,[1] and played minor league baseball in 1902 for teams in Little Rock, Chattanooga and Dallas.[2]
In 1903, Moran pitched for the National League's St. Louis Cardinals, who finished in last place, but he appeared in only three games (plus another as a shortstop) before injuring his arm. He posted a 5.25 earned run average in his brief tenure of 24 innings, being charged with a loss without earning a win, but also batted .429. He went back to the minor leagues to manage the Dallas Giants in 1904, and continued playing with teams in Galveston (1905), Waco and Cleburne (1906), Grand Rapids (1906–07) and Savannah (1908).[2] He returned to the Cardinals as a catcher in 1908 and played in 21 games, batting .175 as the team again finished last.
His minor league career continued with teams in Milwaukee, Mobile, New Orleans, Dallas and Montgomery until he suffered a broken leg in 1912. He briefly played with teams in Chattanooga and Brunswick in 1913 before retiring as a player. After managing an Austin team in 1914, he began umpiring, in the Texas League in 1915–16 and the Southern Association in 1917.[2]
Coaching and officiating
Moran began coaching football in 1909 at Texas A&M, where he accumulated a 38–8–4 record as head coach over six seasons through 1914. Note. This may be incorrect as he was elevated to head coach after the second game of the 1909 season.
He became a National League umpire in 1918, a job he held through the 1939 season. He officiated in four World Series (1927, 1929, 1933, and 1938), serving as crew chief on the last two occasions. He was behind the plate on May 8, 1929 when Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants pitched an 11–0 no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Moran also resumed his career as a football head coach in 1919 at Centre College, where he had a 42–6–1 record in five seasons. He had previously been working as an assistant coach at Carlisle, and had visited Centre to see his son Tom—later an NFL player with the New York Giants—play; after helping the team prepare for an important contest he was offered the head coaching job by the school.[2] His record including undefeated seasons in 1919 and 1921, when the team was led on the field by Hall of Fame quarterback Bo McMillin. On October 29, 1921, Moran guided Centre College to a historic 6–0 upset of Harvard, which had been unbeaten the previous two seasons. The game, commonly appreviated “C6-H0”, was ranked the 3rd biggest upset in college football history by ESPN.[3]
During the 1921 season Moran began a friendship with future baseball commissioner Happy Chandler, who was then a player on an opposing Transylvania University team.[2] Moran then moved to Bucknell University, where he had a 19–10–2 record from 1924 through 1926.
He was co-coach with Ed Weir of the NFL's Frankford Yellow Jackets in 1927, but left after the team managed only a 6–9–3 season. His final coaching job was at Catawba College from 1930 through 1933, where he had a 22–11–5 record.
Moran died of heart disease at age 71 in Horse Cave, Kentucky, and was buried at Horse Cave Cemetery. He was named to the Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame in 1968.
Head coaching record
College football
Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Texas A&M Aggies (Independent) (1909–1914) 1909 Texas A&M 6–0 1910 Texas A&M 8–1 1911 Texas A&M 6–1 1912 Texas A&M 8–1 1913 Texas A&M 3–4–2 1914 Texas A&M 6–1–1 Texas A&M: 38–8–4 Centre Praying Colonels (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1919–1923) 1919 Centre 9–0 1920 Centre 8–2 W Fort Worth Classic 1921 Centre 10–1 L Dixie Classic 1922 Centre 8–2 1923 Centre 7–1–1 Centre: 42–6–1 Bucknell Bison (Independent) (1924–1926) 1924 Bucknell 8–2 1925 Bucknell 7–3–1 1926 Bucknell 4–5–1 Bucknell: 19–10–2 Catawba Indians () (1930–1933) 1930 Catawba 8–0–1 1931 Catawba 7–3–1 1932 Catawba 5–3–1 1933 Catawba 2–5–2 Catawba: 22–11–5 Total: 121–35–12 National Championship Conference Title Conference Division Title References
- ^ Charley Moran at HickokSports.com
- ^ a b c d e Siler, Tom (1949-06-22). "Death Ends Colorful Career of Charley Moran". The Sporting News: p. 15.
- ^ ESPN ranks 1921 Centre-Harvard game among college football's greatest upsets
External links
- Handbook of Texas Online
- Photo at Centre College Cyclopedia
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
- Retrosheet
- BaseballLibrary - profile and SABR bibliography
- Charley Moran at Find a Grave
Texas A&M Aggies head football coaches F. D. Perkins (1894) • No team (1895) • A. M. Soule & H. W. South (1896) • C. W. Taylor (1897) • H. W. Williams (1898) • W. A. Murray (1899–1901) • J. E. Platt (1902–1904) • Walter E. Bachman (1905–1906) • L. L. Larson (1907) • N. A. Merriam (1908–1909) • Charley Moran (1909–1914) • E. H. Harlan (1915–1916) • Dana X. Bible (1917) • D. V. Graves (1918) • Dana X. Bible (1919–1928) • Matty Bell (1929–1933) • Homer H. Norton (1934–1947) • Harry Stiteler (1948–1950) • Raymond George (1951–1953) • Bear Bryant (1954–1957) • Jim Myers (1958–1961) • Hank Foldberg (1962–1964) • Gene Stallings (1965–1971) • Emory Bellard (1972–1978) • Tom Wilson (1978–1981) • Jackie Sherrill (1982–1988) • R. C. Slocum (1989–2002) • Dennis Franchione (2003–2007) • Gary Darnell # (2007) • Mike Sherman (2008– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.Texas A&M Aggies head baseball coaches Wirt Spencer (1904–1908) • Charley Moran (1909–1914) • C. C. Lucid (1915) • D. V. Graves (1916–1919) • Dana X. Bible (1920–1921) • Gene Cochrehan (1922) • H. H. House (1923–1924) • Claude Rothgeb (1925–1927) • R. D. Countryman (1928–1929) • Grady Higginbotham (1930–1935) • Jules V. Sikes (1936–1937) • Marty Karow (1938–1941) • Lil Dimmit (1942) • Homer H. Norton (1943–1944) • A. E. Jones (1945) • Lil Dimmit (1946–1947) • Marty Karow (1948–1950) • Beau Bell (1951–1958) • Tom Chandler (1959–1984) • Mark Johnson (1985–2005) • Rob Childress (2006– )
Centre Praying Colonels head football coaches Samuel L. McKee (1879–1880) • Unknown (1881–1890) • Walter L. Berry (1891–1893) • Messler (1894) • Lowndes (1895) • H. McC. Anderson (1896–1897) • Dick Van Winkle (1898) • Edgar Tanner (1899) • Hamill (1900) • Hall (1901) • E. M. Tutwiler (1902) • H. A. Chiles (1903–1904) • William E. Johnston (1905–1908) • M. B. Banks (1909–1911) • Patrick O'Brien (1912–1913) • Merle C. Knapp (1914) • Orville B. Littick (1915) • Robert L. Myers (1916) • No team (1917–1918) • Charley Moran (1919–1923) • Harold B. Ofstie (1924–1925) • Boise Porrhoff (1928) • Ed Kuhale (1929–1937) • J. Quinn Decker (1938–1941) • Laird Holt (1942) • No team (1943–1945) • Carl Anderson (1946–1950) • William L. Crabtree (1951) • T. Briscoe Inman (1952–1956) • Joe Brummett (1957–1960) • Spencer Holt (1961–1962) • Briscoe Inman (1963–1965) • Steele Harmon (1966–1971) • Herb McGuire (1972–1979) • Joe McDaniel (1980–1997) • Andrew Frye (1998– )
Bucknell Bison head football coaches No coach (1881–1894) • Bill Young (1895–1896) • George Jennings (1897–1898) • George W. Hoskins (1899–1906) • J. H. Costello (1907) • Paul Smith (1908) • George W. Hoskins (1909) • Byron W. Dickson (1910–1913) • George Cockill (1914) • George Johnson (1915–1917) • Edgar Wingard (1918) • Pete Reynolds (1919–1923) • Charley Moran (1924–1926) • Carl Snavely (1927–1933) • Edward Mylin (1934–1936) • Al Humphreys (1937–1942) • John Sitarsky (1943) • J. Ellwood Ludwig (1944–1945) • Al Humphreys (1946) • Harry Lawrence (1947–1957) • Bob Odell (1958–1964) • Carroll Huntress (1965–1968) • Fred Prender (1969–1974) • Robert Curtis (1975–1985) • George Landis (1986–1988) • Lou Maranzana (1989–1994) • Tom Gadd (1995–2001) • Dave Kotulski (2002) • Tim Landis (2003–2009) • Joe Susan (2010–)
Frankford Yellow Jackets head coaches Punk Berryman (1924) • Guy Chamberlin (1925–1926) • Charley Moran (1927) • Russell Daugherity, Charley Rogers, Ed Weir, & Swede Youngstrom (1927) • Ed Weir (1928) • Bull Behman (1929–1930) • George Gibson (1930) • Bull Behman (1931)
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