Charles Hinton Moser (September 29, 1918 – May 7, 1995) was an

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coach. He was known for guiding Abilene High School to a 49-game winning streak from 1954 to 1957, which is still a Texas state record for 4A and 5A schools, though tied by Southlake Carroll HS in 2007.Long before Southlake Carroll, another dynasty blew through Texas
Moser played college football at the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded ...

, where he was an all-conference

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's 1939 Missouri Tigers football team, which went to the

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. He began his coaching career in

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, but joined the Army Air Corps one year later. He became a navigator at

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. After

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, Moser coached at

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before succeeding

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at Abilene in the spring of 1953. Moser retired from coaching in early 1960 at age 41, to serve as athletic director of Abilene schools. He briefly returned to coaching as

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coach under

Emory Bellard Emory Dilworth Bellard (December 17, 1927 – February 10, 2011) was a college football coach. He was head coach at Texas A&M University from 1972 to 1978 and at Mississippi State University from 1979 until 1985. Bellard died on February 10, 2011 a ...

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Coach Chuck Moser 1918-1995

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