Mosey King

Name: Mosey King
Birth Name: Moses King
Hometown: New London, Connecticut, USA
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Died: 1956-12-10 (Age:72)
Referee: Record
Pro Boxer: Record

One of eight children, Moses (Mosey) King was born in New York in 1884, but moved to New London, Connecticut at the age of five. He may have shared Tony Nelson as a boxing coach in his youth with fellow New London boxers Austin Rice, a contender for the World Featherweight Title, and Abe Hollandersky, a welterweight, and Panamanian Heavyweight champion.
1. Donahue, Thomas E., "Ins and Outs of Sport's World", The Day, pg. 14, New London, CT., 18 September 1935.

At eighteen, King competed successfully for the Connecticut Lightweight Title against Shorty Gans of Wallingford, Connecticut. King won the bout when Gans did not leave his corner for the opening of the 15th round.

King became an assistant coach at Yale University in 1906 under Bill Dole after briefly working as an aid to the football team. He became the head boxing coach at Yale in 1907 and remained in that role until Yale abandoned boxing as an intercollegiate sport in the early 1950s. King was Connecticut's first boxing commissioner, serving from 1921 to 1923. In an era when boxing was one of America's most popular sports, King was the head of the boxing program at one of America's most prominent and influential Universities.

At Yale, he was a popular figure, and worked to familiarize members of the football team with boxing to improve their conditioning.

In February 1909, King announced he would retire from professional boxing, and devote all his time to coaching at Yale. At this point in his career, one reporter noted no boxing instructor at Yale had been so popular.
2. "Mosey King is Out of Arena", The Day, pg. 10, New London, CT., 18 February 1909.

He retired from Yale in 1952 after 46 years as a coach. He was fatally injured on December 10, 1956 when he was struck by a car during his daily visit to the university's Payne Whitney Gymnasium.

Missing bout that appears in partial record in The New Haven Union, February 27, 1907:

Tommy O’Brien Draw-8