Moore had quit football, becoming a truck driver (delivering kosher food in his native Miami), then a junior-college basketball player. An old coaching friend alerted Gators coach Doug Dickey about Moore, who wanted to revive his football career. Moore wasn’t involved in spring drills and wasn’t eligible at UF until September. His name wasn’t even listed in the football brochure. But in the season’s second game, with the Gators clinging to a seven-point lead against FSU in the fourth quarter, Moore sprung loose for two touchdowns in three minutes, including a 46-yard run. Moore, never again an unknown, was the MVP in a 42-13 win against the Seminoles, becoming an All-SEC back and an All-Pro with the Miami Dolphins.
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Posted by David McAlpine, Brooksville on 07/03 at 05:11 PM
The “old coaching friend” of Doug Dickey was my father Robert D. McAlpine, who past away June 26, 2007. Nat attended the funeral which we are grateful. My dad found Nat coaching kids at a YMCA in Miami and recruited him to play at Miami-Dade South JC, where my dad was the basketball head coach.