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 An all-around athlete he attended Baltimore
Polytechnic High School where he played soccer for three years and
captained the squad to two championships in addition to playing lacrosse,
basketball, football, and tennis and competing in track.
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Personal Information |
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Class of 1950 |
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Born: August 7,
1912 - Baltimore, MD |
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Died:
August 4, 2002 - Baltimore, MD |
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Position:
Forward |
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He entered Johns Hopkins University in
1930 where he played football and lacrosse. In 1932 he was a member of the U.S. Lacrosse team at the
Olympics in Los Angeles when lacrosse was an exhibition sport. In 1934 he
graduated from Johns Hopkins with a bachelor of engineering degree and
subsequently worked in Cleveland, Chicago and Baltimore as a marketing
representative for the Westinghouse Electric Company. He began playing soccer as a 13 year
old in the Baltimore Police Athletic League and following his graduation
from Johns Hopkins became a member of the Baltimore Canton team when it
joined the American Soccer League for the 1934-35 season. He remained
with Canton in 1935-36, finishing among the leading goal scorers in both
seasons. When his job took him to Cleveland in 1936 he played for
Cleveland Graphite Bronze and when he moved on to Chicago he was a member
of the Chicago Sparta squad that won the U.S. Open Cup. However, he did not play in the
final. For the 1939-40 season he
left Sparta and joined Chicago American Eagles returning to Sparta for
the following two seasons. Back in Baltimore in 1942 he played for the
Baltimore Americans and coached the club in the 1944-45 season. On his retirement as a player he became
president of the Maryland and D.C. State Association and president, general
manager and part owner of the Baltimore Rockets of the American Soccer
League. In addition to his
induction into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1950 Lang was
inducted into the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1978. |
