Doxie Moore

Doxie Moore
Player information
Full name	John Doxie Moore
birthday	February 13, 1911
place of birth	, United States
date of death	April 1986
college	Purdue University
Clubs as coaches
Sheboygan Red Skins (1946–47) Sheboygan Red Skins (1948) Anderson Packers (1950) Milwaukee Hawks (1951–1952)

John Doxie Moore (born February 13, 1911 , † April 1986 ) was an American basketball coach . He attended Delphi High School in Indiana and later, from 1930 to 1934, Purdue University . He became known as the trainer of the Sheboygan Red Skins , the Anderson Packers and the Milwaukee Hawks .

Coaching career

In the 1946/47 season he was hired as the coach of the Sheboygan Red Skins, which played in the NBL . The Red Skins ended the season with a score of 26 to 18 and thus reached the play-offs. In the play-offs, the Red Skins were eliminated in the first round against the Oshkosh All-Stars . In the following season, the Red Skins began further with Moore as a coach, but replaced him in December 1947 by player-coach Bobby McDermott . But after only nine games he moved to the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and Moore got his post as coach back. The Red Skins ended the season with a disappointing record and did not reach the play-offs. During the NBA season 1949-1950 he took over the coaching post with the Anderson Packers and even reached the semifinals with these, in which the team failed at the Minneapolis Lakers . Then he had to quit the job because the Packers stopped playing. After a season he took his last job as a coach with the Milwaukee Hawks . After the Hawks were last in the division and did not reach the play-offs, he was replaced by Andrew Levane .

Others

• He was commissioner of the National Professional Basketball League , which had to stop playing after one season.
• During the 1950s he was the Administrative Assistant to Indiana's Governor George N. Craig .
• In 1978 he was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame .

Web links

• basketball-reference.com: Doxie Moore
• Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame: Doxie Moore ( September 27, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive )
• APBR.org: National Professional Basketball League ( Memento of 25 September 2000 in the Internet Archive )
• "Warfare on the Wabash," TIME Magazine, March 7, 1955