Oscar Lang Jr. (June 16, 1877 â July 16, 1928) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player as well as a coach.
Lang was a prominent fullback for the Virginia Cavaliers football team of the University of Virginia. He was selected All-Southern in 1895. In 1897, he played as a halfback for the football team at Bucknell University.
Lang played professionally with the independent Philadelphia Pros in 1901, and in the following season, he and several others from that club signed with the Philadelphia Phillies of the first National Football League.
In 1899, Lang was an assistant football coach at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He coached the football team at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania from 1900 to 1901, compiling a record of 5âÂÂ10âÂÂ2.
In the 1920s, Lang worked as an agent for the Bureau of Prohibition in South Jersey. He then ran a bakery with his sister, Elizabeth Lang, in Haddon Township, New Jersey. Lang died on July 16, 1928, after suffering a heart attack while playing tennis at Farnham Park in Camden, New Jersey.