Charles Monroe Hoag (July 19, 1931 – March 8, 2012) was an American

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

player who competed in the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

. Hoag was also an important player on the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Tw ...

1952 National Championship basketball team. He starred on the KU

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and

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while at KU as well. He was drafted in the

1953 NFL Draft The 1953 National Football League Draft was held on January 22, 1953, at Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. Selections made by the folded Dallas Texans were assigned to the new Baltimore Colts. This was the seventh year that the first ove ...

in the 26th round by the

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as the 311th overall pick, but he did not play professional sports because of a career ending serious knee injury he suffered in the 1953 KU versus KSU football game. He was part of the U.S. men's national basketball team, which won the

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. He played seven matches.

References

External links

Charles Hoag at databaseOlympics.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoag, Charlie 1931 births 2012 deaths American men's basketball players Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics Basketball players from Oklahoma Kansas Jayhawks baseball players Kansas Jayhawks football players Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball players Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in basketball People from Guthrie, Oklahoma United States men's national basketball team players