Phoney Smith, Mercer's all-time leading scorer, was the first southern player to cross the goal line against the 1927 "dream and wonder" team of Georgia on a 95-yard kickoff return.

[4][5] Moore came to Louisiana State University in 1929 as an assistant coach for Russ Cohen's LSU Tigers football team.

After ending his tenure at LSU, the longest of any coach at the university to that point, Moore became SEC Commissioner in 1948.

In 1967, he won the inaugural James J. Corbett Memorial Award given by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.

[11] Frank Rose, former University of Alabama president, said Moore's "energies, his demand for total integrity, and his devotion to clean sports and good academics have left their mark on the campuses of every SEC member.