Oscar Hagberg

{{Short description|American football player and coach}}

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| name = Oscar Hagberg

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|12|18}}

| birth_place = Charleroi, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1992|8|2|1908|12|18}}

| death_place = Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S.

| alma_mater =

| player_years1 = 1929–1930

| player_team1 = Navy

| player_positions = End, fullback

| coach_years1 = 1933–1934

| coach_team1 = Navy (ends)

| coach_years2 = 1939

| coach_team2 = Navy (ends)

| coach_years3 = 1944–1945

| coach_team3 = Navy

| overall_record = 13–4–1

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Oscar Emil Hagberg (December 18, 1908 – August 2, 1992) was an American college football player and coach and United States Navy officer. He was the 25th head football coach at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and he held that position for two seasons, from 1944 until 1945. His coaching record at Navy was 13–4–1.[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/independents/navy/coaching_records.php Navy Midshipmen football coaching records] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214091548/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/independents/navy/coaching_records.php |date=December 14, 2013 }}{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VZRM-XC4 |title=Record Details — |publisher=Familysearch.org |access-date=March 27, 2013}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KGjfqe6DcrEC&pg=PA476 |title=Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan - Clay Blair - Google Books |isbn=9781557502179 |via=Google Books|access-date=March 27, 2013|last1=Blair |first1=Clay |year=2001 }}

Hagberg was born December 18, 1908, in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. He played football as an end and fullback at Navy from 1928 to 1930. Hagberg was the ends coach for the Midshipmen in 1933, 1934, and 1939.{{cite news |author= |title=Cmdr. Oscar Hagberg Gets Academy Birth |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6966727/the_evening_sun/ |newspaper=The Evening Sun |location=Hanover, Pennsylvania |agency=Associated Press |date=January 27, 1944 |page=9 |access-date=October 10, 2016 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}

In his naval career he saw service in submarines and commanded two boats during World War II, USS S-16 (SS-121) and USS Albacore (SS-218).{{cite web|author=J.T. McDaniel |url=http://www.fleetsubmarine.com/personalities.html |title=American Naval Personalities of World War II at |publisher=Fleetsubmarine.com |access-date=March 27, 2013}} He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.{{cite web | url = https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CgdoYWdiZXJnEgVvc2Nhcg--/ | accessdate = May 21, 2023 | website = ANC Explorer | title = Burial detail: Hagberg, Oscar E }}