[2][3] He led the 1931 USC Trojans football team to a national championship and a victory in the 1932 Rose Bowl, and, at the end of the 1931 season, he was selected by the Central Press Association as a second-team All-American fullback and by the Associated Press as a third-team All-American quarterback.

[4][5] In 1933, after graduating from USC, Mohler played professional baseball in the Pacific Coast League for the Mission Reds.

[6] Mohler was also head coach of the 1943 Wright Field Kittyhawks football team.

[7] He died on November 27, 1949, in the crash of a North American B-25 Mitchell near Dixiana, Alabama.

[8] Mohler was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.