[3] During his time on the team, he played under three different head coaches: Clarence Spears, Fritz Crisler, and Bernie Bierman.

[9] Hass coached the "South" team in the Minnesota High School Football All-Star Game each year from 1952 to 1956.

Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton told Hass, "It is always difficult to interpret a faculty action," and predicted that the sport would soon return.

[12] 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.

"[13] In 1963, Hass oversaw the reinstatement of football at Chicago at the club level,[14] and he became its first head coach since a university administration hostile to the sport had discontinued it in 1939.