Harold W. "Hal" Lahar was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Colgate University and the University of Houston . Lahar was born in Durant, Oklahoma and attended Central High School in Oklahoma City. He later was an All-Southwest 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 with the United States Navy in the South Pacific during World War II. After leaving the service 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.
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| Birthdate: | July 14, 1919 |
| Birthplace: | Durant, Oklahoma |
| Date of death: | 2003 |
| Also known as: | Harold W. Lahar |