Hal Moe Explained

Hal Moe
Birth Date:	28 March 1910
Birth Place:	Spokane, Washington, U.S.
Death Place:	Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.
Player Sport1:	Football
Player Years2:	1929–1932
Player Team2:	Oregon State
Player Years3:	1933
Player Team3:	Chicago Cardinals
Player Positions:	Halfback
Coach Sport1:	Football
Coach Years2:	1933–1942
Coach Team2:	Oregon State (assistant)
Coach Years3:	1946–1948
Coach Team3:	Portland
Coach Years4:	1949–1952
Coach Team4:	Oregon State (assistant)
Coach Sport5:	Track
Coach Years6:	1952–1958
Coach Team6:	Oregon State
Admin Years1:	1946–1948
Admin Team1:	Portland
Overall Record:	4–17–2 (football(
Awards:	Second-team All-PCC (1932)

Harold William Moe (March 28, 1910 – May 26, 2001)^[1] was an American football player and coach. He played and coached at Oregon State University, then known as Oregon Agricultural College. He played one season in the National Football League (NFL) with the Chicago Cardinals.

Early life and playing career

Born in Spokane, Washington, Moe went on to attend Oregon Agricultural College, where he played halfback on the school's football team from 1929 to 1932. Upon the conclusion of his career at Oregon State, he played one season in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago Cardinals.^[2]

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.

Legacy

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

Head coaching record

Football

Notes and References

1. Web site: Social Security Death Index Search Results. January 1, 2008.
2. Web site: Hal Moe Statistics . databaseFootball.com . January 1, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930075257/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=MOEHAL01 . September 30, 2007 .
3. Web site: Obituaries: "Coach" Hal Moe (1910-2001) . Oregon State Alumni Association . January 1, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060831021938/http://alumni.oregonstate.edu/stater/issues/Stater0109/obituariesa.html . August 31, 2006 .
4. Web site: Football Dropped. University of Portland. January 1, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070322193016/http://www.up.edu/spotlight.asp?ctnt=580&lvl=2 . March 22, 2007 .
5. Web site: Hall of Fame Roll of Honor Members . Oregon Sports Hall of Fame and Museum . February 23, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130801161027/http://www.oregonsportshall.com/inductee-members.html . August 1, 2013 .
6. Web site: Oregon State University Sports Hall of Fame. https://web.archive.org/web/20151120004509/http://www.osubeavers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=4700&KEY=&ATCLID=188614. dead. November 20, 2015. Oregon State Sports Information. January 1, 2008.