high_school cyears death_date cteam article_title birth_date image college name
delphi -lrb- delphi , indiana -rrb- 1946 -- 1948 1950 1951 -- 1952 23 april 1986 sheboygan red skins anderson packers milwaukee hawks doxie moore
 13 february 1911 doxie moore.jpeg purdue -lrb- 1930 -- 1934 -rrb- doxie moore
doxie moore

john doxie moore -lrb- february 13 , 1911 -- april 23 , 1986 -rrb- was an american basketball player and coach .
he attended delphi high school in delphi , indiana , and played college basketball at purdue university from 1930 to 1934 , playing alongside john wooden as purdue laid claim to the 1932 helms athletic foundation national championship .
he coached several professional basketball teams , including the sheboygan red skins , the anderson packers and the milwaukee hawks in the 1940s and 50s .
moore was hired to coach sheboygan for the 1946 -- 47 season .
the red skins finished with a 26 -- 18 record and qualified for the national basketball league -lrb- nbl -rrb- playoffs , where they were ousted in the first round .
in 1947 -- 48 , moore began the season as sheboygan 's head coach , but gave up the duties when the red skins obtained player-coach bobby mcdermott , a hall of fame guard , from the chicago american gears .
the gears players had been distributed among the nbl 's teams when chicago 's league , the fledgling professional basketball league of america , folded in november 1947 after only three weeks in operation .
mcdermott coached sheboygan to a 4 -- 5 record in one month of duty before leaving for the tri-cities blackhawks and handing the reins back to moore .
the red skins finished a disappointing 23 -- 37 and missed the playoffs .
moore served as the commissioner of the nbl in its final season .
following the nbl-baa merger , moore was hired as coach of the anderson packers in the middle of the 1949-50 nba season .
when the packers jumped to the national professional basketball league for the 1950-51 season , moore served as the npbl 's commissioner as the league struggled to finish its only season .
moore served as coach and vice-president of the milwaukee hawks for 1951-52 , their first season in milwaukee .
in the 1950s , he was an administrative assistant to indiana governor george n. craig .
moore was inducted into the indiana basketball hall of fame in 1978 , and served as the first president of the hall of fame foundation .
