Walter Hass
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Walter Hass
| image = Walter Hass.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Hass as Minnesota captain in 1932
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1910|10|7}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1987|9|13|1910|10|7}}
| death_place = Hendersonville, North Carolina, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| player_years1 = 1930–1932
| player_team1 = Minnesota
| player_positions = Halfback
| coach_years1 = 1933
| coach_team1 = Minnesota (freshman)
| coach_years2 = 1935–1938
| coach_team2 = Hibbing
| coach_years3 = 1939–1955
| coach_team3 = Carleton
| coach_years4 = 1963–1975
| coach_team4 = Chicago
| admin_years1 = 1942–1956
| admin_team1 = Carleton
| admin_years2 = 1956–1976
| admin_team2 = Chicago
| overall_record = 71–83–5 (varsity college)
21–6–1 (junior college)
| bowl_record =
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| championships = 2 MWC (1954)
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Walter L. Hass (October 7, 1911 – September 13, 1987)[http://www.mocavo.com/Walter-Hass-1910-1987-Social-Security-Death-Index/15809311583188464269 Walter Hass (1910-1987), Social Security Death Index] was an American football coach and athletic director. He served in both capacities at the University of Chicago. Hass was also the athletic director and head football coach at Carleton College, head coach at Hibbing Community College, and freshman team coach at his alma mater, the University of Minnesota.
College career
Hass attended the University of Minnesota, where he played football as a halfback. Hass earned three varsity letters from 1930 to 1932 and served as team captain.[http://www.gophersports.com//pdf1/135929.pdf?ATCLID=1138393&SPSID=39281&SPID=3280&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=8400 All-Time Letterwinners], 2008 Golden Gopher Football Media Guide, p. 177, University of Minnesota, 2008. During his time on the team, he played under three different head coaches: Clarence Spears, Fritz Crisler, and Bernie Bierman.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xOUhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ImQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6782,3222945&dq=walter-hass&hl=en Bierman Third Coach of Gopher Grid Leader], Sarasota Herald, December 21, 1931. All three were eventually elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.{{College Football HoF|id=1278|name=Clarence "Doc" Spears|access-date=August 18, 2010}}{{College Football HoF|id=1687|name=Fritz Crisler|access-date=August 18, 2010}}{{College Football HoF|id=1532|name=Bernie "The Silver Fox of the Northland" Bierman|access-date=August 18, 2010}}
Hass graduated from Minnesota in 1934.[https://archive.today/20130131145505/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/access/310742002.html?dids=310742002:310742002&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Nov+29,+1932&author=Special+to+The+Christian+Science+Monitor&pub=Christian+Science+Monitor&desc=MINNESOTA+ELECTS+OEN&pqatl=google Minnesota Elects Oen], Christian Science Monitor, November 29, 1932. After graduation, he served as the freshman team coach at his alma mater for one season.
Coaching career
Hass then moved to Hibbing, Minnesota, where he coached Hibbing Community College from 1935 to 1938 and amassed a 21–6–1 record.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NG4dAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TCQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6658,4424594&dq=walter-hass&hl=en Hass Was Not Typical Coach], The Times-News, August 7, 1978. Hass next coached at Carleton College, a small liberal arts school in Northfield, Minnesota, from 1939 to 1955. His overall record was 62–43–4 with the Carleton football program, and he won a Midwest Conference with 1954's undefeated team. He also served as Carleton's athletic director from 1942 until 1956.{{cite web|title=Walter Hass|url=https://apps.carleton.edu/alumni/c-club/hall_of_fame/coaches/w_hass/|publisher=Carleton College}} Hass coached the "South" team in the Minnesota High School Football All-Star Game each year from 1952 to 1956.[http://www.allstarfootball.org/HISTORY/MN_All_Star_Coaches1.pdf Participating Coaches], Minnesota High School All Star Football, retrieved August 18, 2010.
In February 1956, the University of Chicago hired Hass as the replacement to retiring athletic director T. Nelson Metcalf.[http://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/search/#query=Hass&ymd=1956-02-17 Chicago Picks W. L. Hass As Sports Chief], Chicago Daily Tribune, p. B1, February 17, 1956. In May 1956, the University of Chicago faculty reacted negatively to overtures of renewing sponsorship of football on campus. Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton told Hass, "It is always difficult to interpret a faculty action," and predicted that the sport would soon return.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6-wNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B3YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4655,475766&dq=walter-hass&hl=en Pot Luck], St. Petersburg Times, June 1, 1956. In 1959, Hass defended the "sport" of tiddlywinks by stating that its "considerable hazards" included "split thumbnails, flying winks which threaten players and spectators alike."[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7xUeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qVYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1870,777984&dq=walter-hass&hl=en Tiddlywinks no Game for Sissies], The Buckingham Post, May 15, 1959.
In 1963, Hass oversaw the reinstatement of football at Chicago at the club level,[https://web.archive.org/web/20121103143900/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/516990942.html?dids=516990942:516990942&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Oct+24,+1956&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Football+Returns+to+the+Midway%3B+35+Maroons+Hold+1st+Scrimmage&pqatl=google Football Returns to the Midway; 35 Maroons Hold 1st Scrimmage], Chicago Tribune, October 24, 1956. and he became its first head coach since a university administration hostile to the sport had discontinued it in 1939.Douglas A. Noverr, [https://books.google.com/books?id=-BQ2rKXRMGgC The Games They Played: Sports in American History, 1865-1980], p. 143, Rowman & Littlefield, 1983, {{ISBN|0-88229-819-4}}. The return of football was not universally embraced by the student body, and in the inaugural season, 200 students protested in the middle of Stagg Field, which delayed the game and resulted in four arrests.[http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/October-2006/Marooned/ Marooned!; After a 30-year hiatus, varsity football returned to the University of Chicago in the 1970s—sort of], Chicago Magazine, October 2006. Later in the decade, however, 1,100 students petitioned the administration for the promotion of Chicago football to the varsity level. The faculty administration and board of trustees approved the move and the team became a member of the non-scholarship Division III in 1969.
He retired as football coach, golf coach, professor, and the Department of Physical Education chairman in the spring of 1976. Former high school football mentor Bob Lombardi succeeded him as head coach.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7fcgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rHMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6347,3650035&dq=walter-hass&hl=en High school coach gets Chicago post], The Day, May 20, 1976. Hass's final record at Chicago was 11–48–1.[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=2681 Walter Hass Records by Year] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213205136/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=2681 |date=2010-02-13 }}, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved August 18, 2010. While at Chicago, he was credited with rebuilding the athletic department, "which had declined to almost nothing" prior to his arrival.
Hass retired to North Carolina in 1977.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121103143550/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24742444.html?dids=24742444:24742444&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+16,+1987&author=Edward+Baumann&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=WALTER+HASS%3B+REVIVED+FOOTBALL+AT+THE+U.+OF+C.&pqatl=google Walter Hass Revived Football at the U. of C.], Chicago Tribune, September 16, 1987. He died September 13, 1987, in Hendersonville, North Carolina, at the age of 76.[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB36D874BDA7EC6&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Walter L. Hass, 76, brought football back to U. of C.], The Chicago Sun-Times, p. 104, September 17, 1987.
Head coaching record
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| conf = Midwest Conference
| startyear = 1939
| endyear = 1940
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| year = 1939
| name = Carleton
| overall = 4–3
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| year = 1940
| name = Carleton
| overall = 6–1–1
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| confstanding = 2nd
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| name = Carleton Carls
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1941
| endyear = 1945
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| year = 1941
| name = Carleton
| overall = 2–4–1
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| conf = Midwest Conference
| startyear = 1946
| endyear = 1955
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| year = 1946
| name = Carleton
| overall = 5–3
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| year = 1947
| name = Carleton
| overall = 3–3–2
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| year = 1948
| name = Carleton
| overall = 6–2
| conference = 4–2
| confstanding = 3rd
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| ranking2 = no
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| year = 1949
| name = Carleton
| overall = 4–4
| conference = 4–2
| confstanding = T–3rd
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| ranking2 = no
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| year = 1950
| name = Carleton
| overall = 5–3
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| year = 1951
| name = Carleton
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| year = 1952
| name = Carleton
| overall = 3–5
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| ranking2 = no
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| championship =
| year = 1953
| name = Carleton
| overall = 2–6
| conference = 2–5
| confstanding = T–6th
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| ranking2 = no
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| championship = conference
| year = 1954
| name = Carleton
| overall = 8–0
| conference = 8–0
| confstanding = 1st
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| year = 1955
| name = Carleton
| overall = 5–3
| conference = 5–2
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Carleton
| overall = 62–43–4
| confrecord = 45–28–2
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Chicago Maroons
| conf = NCAA College Division / NCAA Division III independent
| startyear = 1969
| endyear = 1975
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| year = 1969
| name = Chicago
| overall = 2–4
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| name = Chicago
| overall = 2–5
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| name = Chicago
| overall = 3–4
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| name = Chicago
| overall = 1–6
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| name = Chicago
| overall = 0–6–1
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| year = 1974
| name = Chicago
| overall = 0–8
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| name = Chicago
| overall = 1–7
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| overall = 9–40–1
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| overall = 71–83–5
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