"Moon" Mullins (June 13, 1908 – August 10, 1968) was an American college football player, coach and athletic director.
[1] He attended the University of Notre Dame, where he played on the football team under head coach Knute Rockne as a fullback from 1928 to 1930.
The following season, he became head football coach and athletic director at St. Benedict's, a small college in Atchison, Kansas with 600 students at the time, for a salary of about $3,500.
He was sworn in as a lieutenant senior grade in Jacksonville, Florida on March 23, 1942, and then attended a month-long course in Annapolis, Maryland prior to service in the Navy's physical training program.
[9] The following year, he assisted Lieutenant Colonel Bernie Bierman, the athletic director and football coach at the Iowa Preflight School.
[11] In August 1945, he was made a staff officer of the Naval Air Intermediate Training Command in Corpus Christi, Texas.
[1] On November 5, 1945, Santa Clara University appointed him as its head coach of its football program, which had been temporarily suspended during the war.
[1] However, Mullins tendered his resignation on May 7, 1946, after his abortive five-month search for a residence for his wife and six children in the midst of housing shortage.