Doxie Moore

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

Coaching career

In the 1946/47 season, he was selected as coach of the Sheboygan Red Skins, who played in the NBL. The Red Skins finished the season with a record of 26-18 and thus reached the play-offs. In the play-offs but the Red Skins secreted directly into the first round against the Oshkosh All-Stars. In the following season, the Red Skins began further with Moore as a trainer, but replaced him in December 1947 by player-coach Bobby McDermott. However, this changed after only nine games for the Tri -Cities Blackhawks and Moore got his job back as a coach. The Red Skins finished the season with a disappointing record and did not reach the play-offs. During the 1949-1950 NBA season, he took over as coach at the Anderson Packers and reached with these even the Semifinals, in which the team failed at the Minneapolis Lakers. Then he had to give up the job because the Packers einstellten the game operation. After one season, he took his last post as coach of the Milwaukee Hawks. After the Hawks but the last in the division and were not he was reaching the play-offs replaced by Andrew levans.

Others

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