Early Career
As a youth Mora became an Eagle Scout in 1950 and was presented the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award as an adult by the Boy Scouts of America. Mora was a tight end at Occidental College, graduating in 1957. His college roommate was Jack Kemp, an all star quarterback with the Buffalo Bills, U.S congressman for 18 years and presidential candidate in 1988. Another teammate was Ron Botchan, who went on to become a successful NFL game official. After playing three years of service football in the United States Marines Mora became an assistant coach at his alma mater in 1960. He moved up to head coach of Occidental a few years later and led the team for three seasons (1964–66) compiling an 18-9 record.
Mora received a master's degree in education in 1967 and left Occidental to serve as an assistant coach at Stanford for the 1967 season. He then spent five seasons at Colorado, one at UCLA and three at Washington. In 1978 he moved to the professional ranks as the defensive line coach for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks under head coach Jack Patera.
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