Hal Lahar

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hal_Lahar an entity of type: Thing

Harold Wade Lahar (July 14, 1919 – October 20, 2003) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Colgate University (1952–1956, 1962–1967) and the University of Houston (1957–1961). Lahar was born in Durant, Oklahoma and attended in Oklahoma City. He later was an All-Big Six Conference guard for the Oklahoma Sooners under coach Tom Stidham. Lahar was selected 79th overall in the 1941 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears, where he spent the 1941 NFL season before serving in the United States Navy in the South Pacific during World War II. rdf:langString
rdf:langString Hal Lahar
rdf:langString Hal Lahar
rdf:langString Houston
rdf:langString Colgate
rdf:langString Hal Lahar
xsd:date 2003-10-20
xsd:date 1919-07-14
xsd:integer 14567036
xsd:integer 1081800240
xsd:integer 1952 1957 1960 1962
xsd:date 1919-07-14
rdf:langString Lahar at Houston, circa 1957
xsd:integer 2
xsd:integer 2 3
xsd:date 2003-10-20
xsd:integer 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 24 29 77
rdf:langString coach
xsd:integer 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967
xsd:integer 8
rdf:langString NCAA University Division independent
rdf:langString no
rdf:langString conference
rdf:langString Harold Wade Lahar (July 14, 1919 – October 20, 2003) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Colgate University (1952–1956, 1962–1967) and the University of Houston (1957–1961). Lahar was born in Durant, Oklahoma and attended in Oklahoma City. He later was an All-Big Six Conference guard for the Oklahoma Sooners under coach Tom Stidham. Lahar was selected 79th overall in the 1941 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears, where he spent the 1941 NFL season before serving in the United States Navy in the South Pacific during World War II. After leaving the service as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in 1945, Lahar played for the Buffalo Bills of the All-America Football Conference from 1946 to 1948 before beginning his college coaching career as an assistant under Otis Douglas at the University of Arkansas in 1950. In 1952, he became the 25th head coach at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. In 1957, he succeeded Bill Meek at the University of Houston, where he spent five years, before returning to Colgate in 1962, making him the first man to return to a Division I head-coaching job after leaving for another school. Following the 1967 season, Lahar retired from coaching and served as athletic director at Colgate. His overall coaching record at Colgate was 53–40–8. Lahar was also assistant commissioner of the Southwest Conference. He worked at the now-defunct SWC from 1973 until his retirement in 1983. Upon his death in 2003, Lahar was buried in the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.
xsd:integer 1967
rdf:langString no
xsd:integer 1950 1952 1957 1962
<stone> 1.0 3.0
xsd:integer 1956 1959 1961 1967
xsd:integer 77
xsd:integer 1938 1941 1946
rdf:langString no
xsd:nonNegativeInteger 11760
xsd:string 77–63–10

data from the linked data cloud