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Bernie Moore
Biographical details
Born	April 30, 1895; Jonesborough, Tennessee, U.S.
Died	November 6, 1967 (aged 72); Winchester, Tennessee, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1910s	Carson–Newman
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1923–1925	Sewanee (line)
1926–1928	Mercer
1929–1934	LSU (assistant)
1935–1947	LSU
Basketball
1926–1928	Mercer
Track and field
1930–1947	LSU
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1926–1928	Mercer
1948–1966	SEC (commissioner)
Head coaching record
Overall	95–51–9 (football); 24–11 (basketball)
Bowls	1–3–1
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	Football; 2× SEC (1935, 1936)
Awards
	Amos Alonzo Stagg Award (1966); Corbett Award (1967); Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame; Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame
	College Football Hall of Fame; Inducted in 1952 (profile)

Bernie Hawthorne Moore (April 30, 1895 – November 6, 1967) was an American college football, basketball, track and field coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Mercer University (1926–1928) and Louisiana State University (LSU) (1935–1947). Moore was also the head basketball coach at Mercer (1926–1928) and the head track and field coach at LSU (1930–1947). He was then SEC commissioner from 1948 to 1966. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1952.

Early life

Moore was the youngest of 14 children, the son of a Baptist minister. He graduated from Carson–Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee, where he played football and baseball.^[1]

Career

Coach

Moore coached football, baseball, basketball, and track at Winchester and LaGrange high schools, and Allen Military Academy, before receiving the position of line coach for Sewanee.^[2]

Mercer

Moore coached the Mercer Bears from 1926 to 1928. Phoney Smith, Mercer's all-time leading scorer, was the first southern player to cross the goal line against the 1927 "dream and wonder" team of Georgia on a 95-yard kickoff return.^[3] Later Georgia coach Wally Butts was also one of Moore's players at Mercer.^[4]^[5]

LSU

Moore came to Louisiana State University in 1929 as an assistant coach for Russ Cohen's LSU Tigers football team.^[1] He became the coach of the LSU Tigers track and field team in 1930.^[6] His 1933 track team won the national championship.^[7]

Moore took over the LSU football head coaching job in 1935 after the resignation of Biff Jones, and was a popular choice among the football players.^[8]^[9]^[10] Moore's 1935 Tigers posted a 9–2 record and the school's first Southeastern Conference championship.

Commissioner

After ending his tenure at LSU, the longest of any coach at the university to that point, Moore became SEC Commissioner in 1948. In 1967, he won the inaugural James J. Corbett Memorial Award given by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.

Later life and legacy

Moore was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 1963 and the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1966. LSU's Bernie Moore Track Stadium is named in his honor. He died on November 6, 1967, in Winchester, Tennessee.^[11] Frank Rose, former University of Alabama president, said Moore's "energies, his demand for total integrity, and his devotion to clean sports and good academics have left their mark on the campuses of every SEC member. For that, we are grateful."^[11]

Head coaching record

Football


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	AP^#
Mercer Bears (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1926–1928)
1926	Mercer	4–3–2	3–1–1	T–4th
1927	Mercer	5–4	2–2	10th
1928	Mercer	3–5–1	2–2–1	15th
Mercer:		12–12–3
LSU Tigers (Southeastern Conference) (1935–1947)
1935	LSU	9–2	5–0	1st	L Sugar
1936	LSU	9–1–1	6–0	1st	L Sugar	2
1937	LSU	9–2	5–1	2nd	L Sugar	8
1938	LSU	6–4	2–4	10th
1939	LSU	4–5	1–5	10th
1940	LSU	6–4	3–3	6th
1941	LSU	4–4–2	2–2–2	7th
1942	LSU	7–3	3–2	6th
1943	LSU	6–3	2–2	2nd	W Orange
1944	LSU	2–5–1	2–3–1	6th
1945	LSU	7–2	5–2	3rd		15
1946	LSU	9–1–1	5–1	3rd	T Cotton	8
1947	LSU	5–3–1	2–3–1	8th
LSU:		83–39–6	43–28–4
Total:		95–51–9
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth
^#Rankings from final AP Poll.

References

^ ^a ^b "Bernie Moore". lasportshall.com. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
^ "SEC getting a new boss this week". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. January 28, 1965. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
^ Garbin, Patrick (2008). About them Dawgs!: Georgia football's memorable teams and players. United States: Scarecrow Press. pp. 43, 48. ISBN 978-0-8108-6040-7.
^ Wilder, Robert E. (2011). Gridiron Glory Days [Football at Mercer, 1892-1942]. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press. p. 73. ISBN 9780881462678. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
^ Scott, Richard (September 15, 2008). SEC Football [75 Years of Pride and Passion]. London, England: Voyaguer Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-1616731335. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
^ "LSU Track and Field Media Guide". lsusports.net. p. 7. Archived from the original on August 2, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
^ "LSU Athletics Hall of Fame Inductee Bernie Moore". lsusports.net. Archived from the original on July 30, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
^ "LSU Year-by-Year Records" (PDF). lsusports.net. p. 107. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 19, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
^ Vincent, Herb (June 2008). LSU Football Vault [The History of the Fighting Tigers]. Atlanta, Georgia: Whitman Publishing, LLC. p. 89. ISBN 978-0794824280. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
^ "Huey Long Puts his "Okay" on the New Coach". The Lewiston Daily Sun. December 28, 1934. p. 9. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Bernie Moore Dies but Imprint on SEC Remains". St. Petersburg Times. Associated Press. November 7, 1967. Retrieved March 5, 2016.