Playing with UCLA in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), Moore was voted All-Southern Division three times, including a first-team selection.

[1][7] He averaged 19.1 points per game that year, earning All-State honors and a second straight All-Northern Indiana team selection.

[7] His coach called him better than Dave Minor,[8] a Froebel alumnus who became an All-Southern Division basketball player at the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) in 1948.

[6] Moore also lettered for four years on Froebel's track and cross country teams, and served as student body president.

[10][11] In his first year in 1951–52, Moore played on the varsity team with fellow freshmen Ron Bane, Don Bragg, and Mark Costello.

[8][12] The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) had temporarily permitted freshmen to play because many students were leaving college to serve in the Korean War.

[15] UCLA won their fourth consecutive Southern Division title that season,[16] and they defeated Washington for their second straight PCC championship.

[22] He was one of three Black starters for UCLA who were averaging double figures in scoring, including Willie Naulls and Morris Taft.

[31] Moore became the first player to twice win the Caddy Works award,[32] which honors a Bruin "selected for his competitive spirit, inspiration and unselfish contribution to the team".

[34] In March 1955, Moore played for Los Angeles Kirby's Shoes at the AAU national tournament,[35][36] advancing to the quarterfinals.

[53][54] In 1963, he was a player-coach for Entre Nous' all-Black squad in Los Angeles Valley College's Lion summer basketball league.

[34] By the 1970s, he was an executive at Wells Fargo and later an assistant vice president and branch manager for Great Western Savings and Loan Association in Beverly Hills, California.