Maurice F. Daly

Maurice F. Daly, known as Moe, was an American football player and a United States Army Air Forces colonel. He grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, and did not play sports at Hartford Public High School, but at Connecticut Agricultural College, today the University of Connecticut, he made the football team in 1920, became its star fullback and was voted captain for 1922. He then attended the United States Military Academy, where he played halfback for Army in 1924 and center in 1926, starting the whole of the 1926 Army-Navy Game, considered the greatest in that series, and also starred in basketball, ice hockey and lacrosse; he later joined the West Point football coaching staff. In World War II he was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, was captured after the fall of Bataan in April 1942, and died as a prisoner aboard a Japanese prison ship on 21 January 1945, aged 44.