Hall of Fame
Moberly started all four years (1965-68) for coach Roy Kidd’s football team at linebacker and was part of two Ohio Valley Conference championship teams and the 1967 Grantland Rice Bowl championship team. He began his career starting for Eastern midway through his 1965 freshman season as EKU finished 4-4-1. The Maroons finished fourth in the league in team defense that year, allowing just 278 yards per contest. As a sophomore, the Colonels finished 7-3 overall and ended up 15th in the final UPI poll for small colleges. Eastern grew a reputation as a tough defense that season after leading the league in scoring defense (10.8 ppg.) and overall team defense (203.8 ypg.). His junior season produced one of the all-time great Colonel teams as Eastern finished 8-1-2 overall and undefeated in conference play in winning Kidd’s first league title and the school’s third overall. The ’67 season culminated when Eastern defeated Ball State 27-13 in the Grantland Rice Bowl to capture the NCAA’s 10-state Mideast Region championship. While averaging 25.3 points per game on offense, this inductee and his defensive counterparts did their parts, allowing a conference-best 7.5 ppg. EKU also closed the year second in team defense, giving up just 228.1 yards per game. In his senior year of 1968, Eastern was 8-2 and finished undefeated in conference play for the second straight year in winning its second consecutive OVC title. Again finishing second in team defense in final league stats, he was chosen as a first-team All-OVC selection. He is a former president of the Colonel Club and is also one of the founding fathers of Eastern’s football boosters club, the Worn Cleat Club.
