He also was a forward in basketball, helping his team win the Prairie View Interscholastic League state championship in 1964.
He accepted a basketball scholarship to play at Lamar University in his hometown, under coach Jack Martin.
[2] In 1969, he was signed as an undrafted free agent by the San Francisco 49ers, after 49ers player Johnny Fuller recommended him to scout John Nikchivich.
In 1970, the Dolphins' new offensive line coach Monte Clark discovered Solomon was Moore's legal first name and claimed the offensive tackle off waivers from his former team, the San Francisco 49ers,[3] Moore would become an integral part of the Dolphins' success in the 1970s decade, while starting at left tackle.
[4] On August 19, 1989, two days after his 44th birthday, he suffered a heart attack at his home in Miami and was pronounced dead at Coral Reef Hospital that afternoon.