He served as the head football coach at the University of Akron—known as Buchtel College until 1913—for five seasons from 1910 to 1914, compiling a record of 22–16–3.
Haggerty also coached the men's basketball team at Akron those five academic years, 1910–1915, tallying a mark of 30–23.
He was also the head baseball coach at St. Vincent's College, now Loyola Marymount University, from 1906 to 1907, at Buchtel/Akron from 1910 to 1913 and again in 1915, and at DePaul University in 1923, amassing a career college baseball record of 33–23.
He died from cancer at the age of 86 on September 19, 1962, at his home in Chicago, Illinois.
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