A standout guard in high school and college, he played professionally for a total of 17 games with the Boston Redskins of the National Football League (NFL) in 1935 and 1936.

[1] While stationed there with the Navy during World War II, Moran was head football coach at the University of South Carolina for the 1943 season.

[2] On September 2, 1943, Moran was hired to serve as the head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks football program.

[3] The position opened up when his predecessor, Rex Enright, resigned in order to accept a Navy commission.

Moran resigned from his post at Niagara in February 1949 to become line coach at his alma mater, Holy Cross.