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"Uncle" Charlie Moran

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1091

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US 127, Centre College Campus, Danville

Colorful college football coach and National Baseball League umpire. Coached Praying Colonels of Centre College into national football spotlight, 1916-23. See other side. First coached, 1898-99, at Bethel College, Russellville, Ky. Then held four other coaching positions before going to Texas A. and M., where he coached, 1908-13, and at Carlisle Indian School, 1914-15. After seven years at Centre, then went to Bucknell Univ., 1923-25; Catawba College, 1929-39. National League umpire, 1917-39. Officiated at four baseball World Series-1927, 29, 33, 38. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1879. University of Tenn., 1897. Resident of Horse Cave. Died, 1949. Interred Horse Cave Cemetery.

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Coach Moran's Banner Football Record at Centre

Centre Opponent Centre Opponent
1919 1920
95 Hanover 0 66 Morris Harvey 0
Centre Opponent Centre Opponent
1919

12 - Indiana - 3
57 - St. Xavier - 0
69 - Transylvania - 0
46 - Virginia - 7
14 - W. Virginia - 6
56 - Kentucky - 0
56 - DePauw - 0
77 - Georgetown - 7

 1920

120 - Howard - 0
55 - Transylvania -0
14 - Harvard - 31
0 - Georgia Tech - 24
34 - DePauw - 0
49 - Kentucky - 0
28 - VPI - 0
103 - Georgetown - 0
77 - Tex. Christian - 7
1921 National Champions

14 - Clemson - 0
14 - VPI - 0
28 - St. Xavier - 6
98 - Transylvania - 0
6 - Harvard - 0
55 - Kentucky - 0
21 - Auburn - 0
25 - Wash. and Lee - 0
21 - Tulane - 0
38 - Arizona - 0

Post season
14 - Texas A and M - 22
1922

72 - Carson-Newman - 0
21 - Clemson - 0
55 - Mississippi - 0
10 - VPI - 6
10 - Harvard - 24
32 - Louisville - 7
27 - Kentucky - 3
27 - Wash. and Lee - 6
0 - Auburn - 6
42 - S. Carolina - 0

 1923

14 - Carson-Newman - 0
28 - Clemson - 7
29 - Oglethorpe - 0
0 - Pennsylvania - 24
10 - Kentucky - 0
20 - Sewanee - 6
17 - Auburn - 0
19 - Wash. and Lee - 0
3 - Georgia - 3

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