Other Football League clubs he played for include Peterborough United, Lincoln City, Stockport County, Scarborough, and Rochdale.
[2] He made his debut at Bradford Park Avenue on 26 October 1968, signing professional forms a few days later before going on to make sixteen further appearances in the season.
Moss was a major factor in the upturn in form, scoring twenty goals in the campaign,[5] including four past Newport County.
After 95 goals in 271 league games, he was sold to Peterborough United, manager Joe Shaw having found a replacement in Steve Cammack.
After playing for the "Stags" in their first ever season in the Second Division, he returned to the third tier with Chesterfield in January 1979, now managed by Arthur Cox.
[6] In his debut season he became the club's top scorer with seventeen goals, and picked up the Player of the Year award at the end of the campaign.
[7] Vale won promotion from the fourth tier in 1982–83, though Moss had been sold to Colin Murphy's Lincoln City for £1,500 in March 1983, despite still being a regular in the first XI.
[6] McGrath nicknamed Moss and strike partner Bob Newton as the "Kray twins" due to their dominance of opposition defenders.
The Saltergate faithful were therefore taken by surprise when he was sold to Fourth Division Stockport County in December 1986, along with Phil Brown, for a combined fee of £10,000.
He also had a short spell with strugglers Rochdale, scoring twice in ten games for Eddie Gray's side, before his career in the Football League came to an end.
When Moss was starting his career, Chesterfield manager Jimmy McGuigan described him as:"A big, willing bloke, a charming fellow who had raw potential.
Moss always posed an aerial threat and scored many of his goals by towering over defenders and directing the ball into the net.
Moss claimed that "For me competing was all about the pride and dignity of honest endeavour, and winning wasn't all about riches and rewards, it was about preserving one's sporting integrity, it was about honour.
He led Trinity to a fifth-place finish in the Northern Premier League in 1995–96, three points behind champions Bamber Bridge.
In 2000, he was appointed assistant manager of Kettering Town under Peter Morris, though the pair were sacked in February 2001, with the club bottom of the Conference.
He was appointed manager at Conference North club Hucknall Town in 2004 but lost his job after just three months.
[12] On 11 January 2015, Chesterfield declared their home match with Port Vale as "Ernie Moss Day", where money was raised for dementia charities.
At this match, a mosaic portrait of Moss by artist Rob Lally was unveiled in the Proact Stadium foyer.