John Moir (basketball)

When Moir resumed play in 1945–46, he joined the Cleveland Allmen Transfers for whom he played his final season. When his NBL career ended, he had played for four years, won two league championships and scored 562 points in 89 total games.

After graduating from Notre Dame, Moir played professionally in the National Basketball League. In his first two seasons in the league, he won two NBL championships as a member of the Akron Firestone Non-Skids in 1938–39 and 1939–40. Over the course of those two championship seasons Moir averaged 7 ppg, and in the 1940 playoffs he led all players with an 11 ppg average. He spent one more season playing for Akron before joining the Rochester Seagrams in 1942. However, World War II suspended Rochester’s ability to play.

Moir decided to enroll at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Back then, NCAA rules prohibited freshmen from playing varsity sports, so it was not until Moir’s sophomore year of 1935–36 that he was able to play basketball for coach George Keogan.

Moir was born in Rutherglen, Scotland, to parents John and Elizabeth Moir. His father was a carpenter by trade, and Moir also had two siblings. In 1923, their family immigrated to the United States and chose to live in Niagara Falls, New York. As a freshman at Niagara Falls High School, Moir stood only 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) tall. When he graduated from NFHS he enrolled at Trott Vocational School, at which point he had finished growing to 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) and 184 lbs. It was at Trott where Moir first played basketball. When he finished his vocational education, Moir got a job at American Sales Book Company as their bookkeeper. He played on the company’s industrial league basketball team, but it was actually his job performance that afforded him the opportunity to attend college.

John Moir (May 22, 1915 – November 15, 1975) was a professional basketball player between 1938 and 1946 in the United States’ National Basketball League.