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Tom McGee Moran (December 10, 1899 – July 4, 1933) was an American football blocking back who played one season with the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Centre College and attended Horse Cave High School in Horse Cave, Kentucky. His father, Charley Moran, was a Major League Baseball player and college football coach.

Prior to his playing career in the NFL, he was a coach at Carson–Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee, and he also served as short time as the interim coach of the Frankford Yellow Jackets while his father, Charley Moran, officiated the 1927 World Series.

Moran died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest at his home in Horse Cave, Kentucky on July 4, 1933. He had been in ill health for several years.

References

1. "TOM MORAN". profootballarchives.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015. Retrieved April 16, 2015.
2. Siler, Tom (June 22, 1949). "Death Ends Colorful Career of Charley Moran". The Sporting News. p. 15.
3. Maxymuk, John (July 30, 2012). NFL Head Coaches: A Biographical Dictionary, 1920–2011. McFarland. ISBN 9780786492954. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
4. "Ex-Centre Grid Player Suicides". Messenger-Inquirer. April 17, 2022. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

• Tom Moran at Find a Grave

• 1899 births
• 1933 deaths
• Carson–Newman Eagles football coaches
• Centre Colonels football players
• Frankford Yellow Jackets coaches
• New York Giants players
• People from Hart County, Kentucky
• Players of American football from Nashville, Tennessee
• Players of American football from Kentucky
• Suicides by firearm in Kentucky