Hap Moran
Hap Moran was born in Belle Plaine, Iowa, United States on July 31st, 1901 and is the Football Player. At the age of 93, Hap Moran biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Francis Dale "Hap" Moran (July 31, 1901 – December 30, 1994) was a college and professional American football player.
He appeared at halfback for Carnegie Tech (1922–1925), Grinnell College (1923–1925), the Chicago Yellow Jackets (1927), the Pottsville Maroons (1929), and the New York Giants (1933).
He retired from football in 1933 when he set the league record for the longest run from scrimmage (91 yards against the Green Bay Packers on November 23, 1930) and most yards receiving in a single game (114 yards against the Philadelphia Eagles on October 15, 1933).
For 76 years, his 91-yard run was a New York Giants record until it was overthrown by Tiki Barber on December 31, 2005.
Playing career
Moran, though he later made his name in football, was more well-known in high school for basketball. He was captain of the Iowa All-State team in 1920 and his team from Boone competed in the National Interscholastic Tournament at the University of Chicago, where he was named a High School All-American by Amos Alonzo Stagg.
He was recruited by Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh primarily for basketball, but also for football. The Four Horsemen first appeared as a backfield under Knute Rockne's coaching in 1922 Carnegie–Notre Dame. Moran would play against the Four Horsemen in their last game together in 1930, when the Notre Dame All-Stars defeated the New York Giants in a charity game that raised $115,000 to help New York City's homeless.
Moran played football and basketball for Grinnell College in 1923. Morgan Taylor, a passer who won the first gold medal for the United States in the 1924 Olympics in Paris running the 400-meter hurdles, was his first favorite receiver.
Moran was hired by Frankford Yellow Jackets' Coach Guy Chamberlin in 1926, and his first professional game was against Akron, led by Fritz Pollard, one of the few black players in the NFL, and was one of the first black players to play. Moran scored Frankford's only points of the game and earned a starting position as a halfback. Frankford won the NFL Championship this season, and Moran was their second-highest scorer.
Moran played for the Yellow Jackets in the first part of the 1927 season and was then drafted by the Chicago Cardinals, mainly for his kick skills. After touchdowns this year, he was ranked second in the league for field goals and ninth for points. With John McNally, better known as Johnny Blood, he spent 1928 in the backfield for the Pottsville Maroons. The Giants had to bring Moran to the team for the last game of the 1928 season after the New York Giants' lineman Steve Owen collapsed unconscious trying to tackle him. Moran stayed with the Giants for the next five seasons.
Moran began his career as a quarterback, tailback, wingback, quarterback, blocking back, defensive back, and linebacker.
In 1930, Moran set the NFL record for the longest run from scrimmage, and in 1933 he set the NFL record for the most yards receiving in a single game. He played for the Paterson Panthers of the American Association and coached the Panthers in 1936 after retiring from football. He was a Western Electric buyer who was living in Sunnyside, Queens, New York, and coaching a youth football team there during his football career.