Eugene Van Gent

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Conrad Eugene Van Gent was a college football and college basketball head coach at the University of Missouri, The University of Texas, and Stanford University. During his two seasons as basketball head coach at Missouri (1914-16), Van Gent led to the Tigers to a 21-9 overall record.

Texas hired Van Gent as both football and basketball head coach in 1916; he coached for one season in each sport before joining the military to fight in the First World War. In the 1916 college football season, Van Gent directed Texas to a 7-2 overall record in football and a 5-1 record in Southwest Conference play. As men's basketball head coach for the 1916-17 season, he directed the Longhorns to a 13-3 overall record (7-1 in conference play) and their third consecutive Southwest Conference Championship.

In 1922, Van Gent coached the Stanford Cardinal football team, compiling a 4-2-2 record. Van Gent also coached Stanford's basketball team.

Van Gent played football, basketball, and track at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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