In the military, Haskell was a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy during World War II.
The Board of Regents fired him on March 25, 1947 after university president George L. Cross discovered a $60,000 deficit and $6,000 of unknown expenditures in the athletic department budget.
[1] The misappropriation was during head football coach Jim Tatum's one-year tenure at Oklahoma.
[1] He was listed as a scout for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball in 1948.
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