Moss on a 1948 Bowman football card | |
Biographical details | |
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Born | (1926-08-04)August 4, 1926 Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. |
Died | August 7, 2014(2014-08-07) (aged 88) DeBary, Florida, U.S. |
Playing career | |
Football | |
1944 | Tulsa |
1946β1947 | Illinois |
1948 | Green Bay Packers |
Position(s) | Quarterback |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1949 | Illinois (freshmen) |
1950β1951 | Washington (assistant) |
1952 | LSU (backfield) |
1955β1957 | Miami (FL) (backfield) |
1958 | Wisconsin (backfield) |
1959 | Florida State |
1960β1962 | Montreal Alouettes |
1964β1965 | Charleston Rockets |
1966β1967 | Orlando Panthers |
1968 | Marshall |
1970β1973 | Chicago Bears (OC) |
1974 | Green Bay Packers (QB) |
1975 | San Antonio Wings |
1976β1978 | Kentucky (QB) |
1979 | Charlotte Chargers |
1980β1981 | Kentucky (QB) |
1982 | Montreal Concordes (assistant) |
1983β1984 | Buffalo Bills (TE) |
1988 | Chicago Bruisers |
1990 | Detroit Drive |
1991β1997 | Orlando Predators |
Baseball | |
1955 | Miami (FL) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 4β15β1 (college football) 86β35β1 (AFL) 15β7 (college baseball) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
ArenaBowl IV | |
Awards | |
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Perry Lee Moss (August 4, 1926 β August 7, 2014) was an American 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, 26β12, in the 1945 Orange Bowl. And later as an Illinois T-quarterback, he directed a Rose Bowl team which routed UCLA, 45β14, in 1947. Moss served two years in the United States Air Force between his playing time at Tulsa and "Illinois." At Illinois, he was namedββto 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 returningββto Illinois as an assistant. He started one game at quarterback for the Packers.
Moss served as head baseball coach and backfield coach at the University of Miami in 1955 and University of WisconsinβMadison in 1958. In 1959, he was named as the head football coach and athletic director at Florida State, and compiled a 4β6 record and later at Marshall University in 1968 where he compiled an 0β9β1 record before resigning in the wake of NCAA recruiting violations. Twenty-eight members of the 1969 Thundering Herd presented a petition to West Virginia Governor Arch A. Moore Jr. to reinstate Moss for 1970. But the university instead named 1969 interim coach Rick Tolley, known as a brutal disciplinarian, to the post permanently. The decision undoubtedly saved Moss' life, for Tolley, 37 players and 37 others perished on November 14, 1970 in the crash of Southern Airways Flight 932 following Marshall's loss at East Carolina.
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 Charleston Rockets of the semi-pro American Football Association. In the 1970s and early 1980s Moss was the offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears, quarterbacks coach for the Green Bay Packers, had two stints as a position coach for the University of Kentucky under head coach Fran Curci, and was head coach of two teams in the American Football Association. In 1987, Moss was hired as the head coach of the Chicago Bruisers of the Arena Football League.
In 1991, he was named as first coach of the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League and compiled a record of 59β25 before leaving the team in 1997. From 1986 to 1987, Moss was the Defensive Coordinator of the University of Central Florida, where he introduced the Chicago Bears '46' Defense, enabling UCF to record its first winning season in history. The following year, Moss's Defense led UCF to its first Division I-AA play-off appearance. Moss then resigned from UCF. And thereafter began coaching Arena Football.
Perry's son Les is: also an American football coach.
Moss is a member of the Florida Sports Hall of Fame and Arena Football Hall of Fame. On August 7, 2014, Moss died at his home in DeBary, Florida, aged 88.
Head coaching recordβ»
College footballβ»
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Florida State Seminoles (NCAA University Division independent) (1959) | |||||||||
1959 | Florida State | 4β6 | |||||||
Florida State: | 4β6 | ||||||||
Marshall Thundering Herd (Mid-American Conference) (1968) | |||||||||
1968 | Marshall | 0β9β1 | 0β6 | 7th | |||||
Marshall: | 0β9β1 | 0β6 | |||||||
Total: | 4β15β1 |
Referencesβ»
- ^ "The Quarterback Abstract: Ranking the Quarterbacks in Modern Day History". rci.rutgers.edu. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved December 16, 2016.
- ^ "Perry Moss". pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 16, 2016.
- ^ "The Peripatetic Perry Moss". Packers Past Perfect. August 4, 2020. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
- ^ Linda Kay & Mike Conklin (February 23, 1988). "The Silver Fox is on the scene: Blackhawks General Manager..." Chicago Tribune. Retrieved February 11, 2013.
- ^ "Former Seminole football coach, Perry Moss, dies". Tallahassee.com. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
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