Arthur Mosse
Mosse as seen in 1905 as head football coach of what is now the University of Pittsburgh
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 29, 1872 Queenstown, Ireland |
| Died | January 8, 1956 (aged 83) San Diego, California |
| Playing career | |
| 1895–1898 | Kansas |
| Position(s) | Guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1899 | Warrensburg Teachers |
| 1902 | Warrensburg Teachers |
| 1903–1905 | Western University of Pennsylvania |
| 1912–1913 | Kansas |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 50–22–1 |
Arthur St. Leger "Texas" Mosse (March 29, 1872 – January 8, 1956) was an American football player and coach and the 9th head football coach of the Pittsburgh Panthers and the 13th head football coach for the University of Kansas Jayhawks. While at Pittsburgh, he coached the university to its first undefeated season (10-0) in 1904. Mosse also played professional football for the Homestead Library & Athletic Club in 1901.
Mosse was born to Arthur Wellesley Mosse (1838 – October 8, 1895) and Sophia Mosse (née Palmer) (1835 – 1900) in Queenstown, Ireland, the youngest of five children. He emigrated with his family at the young age of 16 to Kansas City, Kansas via New York City. He and his family soon moved on to Arkansas City, Kansas where he went to high school. He quickly developed a strong interest in and started playing American football not long after arriving in Kansas. He moved to Leavenworth, Kansas around 1890 where he lived and worked for several years in the furniture business. Mosse went on to play guard for the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas from 1895 to 1898, lettering all 4 years and was team captain his senior year in 1898. He met his wife, Ruth Stella Mosse (née Grover) (January 1877 – December 11, 1928), while attending the University of Kansas and they married on December 28, 1898 in St. Joseph, Missouri during his last year at KU. After graduating from KU Mosse initially went back into the furniture business in Kansas City, Kansas, where his daughter Justine was born, before becoming a farmer in 1902 in his wife's native Kickapoo, Kansas on the farm where she was born. The farm had been initially acquired by her father, Charles H. Grover, a prominent politician and lawyer in the early days of the state of Kansas.
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