Eugene Van Gent

Eugene Van Gent
Biographical details
Van Gent from The Savitar, 1916
Sport(s)	Football, basketball, track
Born	(1889-12-23)December 23, 1889 Iowa
Died	June 12, 1949(1949-06-12) (aged 59) Solano County, California
Playing career
Football
1911, 1913	Wisconsin
Basketball
1911–1914	Wisconsin
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1916	Texas
1919	Texas (assistant)
1920	University Farm
1921	Stanford
Basketball
1914–1916	Missouri
1916–1917	Texas
1921–1922	Stanford
Head coaching record
Overall	14–8–3 (football) 42–19 (basketball)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Football 1 SWC (1916)
Awards
Basketball All-American, 1914

Conrad Eugene Van Gent (December 23, 1889 – June 12, 1949) was an American football and basketball player and coach. He served as the head football at the University of Texas at Austin in 1916, at the University Farm, now the University of California, Davis, in 1920, and at Stanford University in 1921, compiling a career college football record of 14–8–3. Van Gent was also the head basketball coach at the University of Missouri (1914–1916), Texas (1916–1917), and Stanford (1921–1922), tallying a career college basketball mark of 42–19. Van Gent played football and basketball, and ran track at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was selected to the College Basketball All-American team in 1914.

Coaching career

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 6–1 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 1921, Van Gent coached the Stanford Cardinal football team, compiling a 4–2–2 record. Van Gent also coached Stanford's basketball team in 1921–22. He fell ill with encephalitis lethargica in December 1922 and was hospitalized in San Francisco.^[1]

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Texas Longhorns (Southwest Conference) (1916)
1916	Texas	7–2	6–1	1st
Texas:		7–2	6–1
University Farm Aggies (Independent) (1920)
1920	University Farm	3–4–1
University Farm:		3–4–1
Stanford (Pacific Coast Conference) (1921)
1921	Stanford	4–2–2	1–1–1	3rd
Stanford:		4–2–2	1–1–1
Total:		14–8–3
National championship Conference title Conference division title

References

↑ "GENE VAN GENT STRICKEN. Former Stanford Football Coach Has Sleeping Sickness". The New York Times. December 24, 1922. Retrieved December 19, 2010.

External links

Eugene Van Gent at the College Football Data Warehouse
Eugene Van Gent at College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Missouri Tigers men's basketball head coaches

Isadore Anderson (1906–1907)
A. M. Ebright (1907–1908)
Guy Lowman (1908–1910)
Chester Brewer (1910–1911)
Osmond F. Field (1911–1914)
Eugene Van Gent (1914–1916)
John F. Miller (1916–1917)
Walter Meanwell (1917–1918)
John F. Miller (1918–1919)
Walter Meanwell (1919–1920)
J. Craig Ruby (1920–1922)
George Bond (1922–1926)
George Edwards (1926–1946)
Wilbur Stalcup (1946–1962)
Bob Vanatta (1962–1967)
Norm Stewart (1967–1999)
Quin Snyder (1999–2006)
Melvin Watkins # (2006)
Mike Anderson (2006–2011)
Frank Haith (2011–2014)
Tim Fuller # (2013)
Kim Anderson (2014– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Texas Longhorns head football coaches

No coach (1893)
Reginald DeMerritt Wentworth (1894)
Frank Crawford (1895)
Harry Orman Robinson (1896)
Walter F. Kelly (1897)
David Farragut Edwards (1898)
Maurice Gordon Clarke (1899)
Samuel Huston Thompson (1900–1901)
J. B. Hart (1902)
Ralph Hutchinson (1903–1905)
H. R. Schenker (1906)
W. E. Metzenthin (1907–1908)
Dexter W. Draper (1909)
Billy Wasmund (1910–1911)
Dave Allerdice (1912–1915)
Eugene Van Gent (1916)
William Juneau (1917–1919)
Berry Whitaker (1920–1922)
E. J. Stewart (1923–1926)
Clyde Littlefield (1927–1933)
Jack Chevigny (1934–1936)
Dana X. Bible (1937–1946)
Blair Cherry (1947–1950)
Ed Price (1951–1956)
Darrell Royal (1957–1976)
Fred Akers (1977–1986)
David McWilliams (1987–1991)
John Mackovic (1992–1997)
Mack Brown (1998–2013)
Charlie Strong (2014–2016)
Tom Herman (2017– )

Texas Longhorns men's basketball head coaches

Magnus Mainland (1906–1907)
No team (1908)
W. E. Metzenthin (1909–1911)
J. Burton Rix (1912)
Carl Taylor (1913)
L. Theo Bellmont (1914–1915)
Roy Henderson (1916)
Eugene Van Gent (1917)
Roy Henderson (1918–1919)
Berry Whitaker (1920)
L. Theo Bellmont (1921–1922)
Milton Romney (1923)
E. J. Stewart (1924–1927)
Mysterious Walker (1927–1931)
Ed Olle (1931–1934)
Marty Karow (1934–1936)
Jack Gray (1936–1942)
Bully Gilstrap (1942–1945)
Jack Gray (1945–1951)
Slue Hull (1951–1956)
Marshall Hughes (1956–1959)
Harold Bradley (1959–1967)
Leon Black (1967–1976)
Abe Lemons (1976–1982)
Bob Weltlich (1982–1988)
Tom Penders (1988–1998)
Rick Barnes (1998–2015)
Shaka Smart (2015– )

UC Davis Aggies head football coaches

Robert E. Harmon (1915–1916)
Jack Glascock (1917)
No team (1918)
Reverend Bobbitt (1919)
Eugene Van Gent (1920)
Wilmer D. Elfrink (1921)
Chester Brewer (1922)
William L. Driver (1923–1927)
Crip Toomey (1928–1936)
Vern Hickey (1937–1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Vern Hickey (1946–1948)
Ted Forbes (1949–1953)
Will Lotter (1954)
Ted Forbes (1955)
Will Lotter (1956–1957)
Herb Schmalenberger (1958)
Will Lotter (1959–1963)
Herb Schmalenberger (1964–1969)
Jim Sochor (1970–1988)
Bob Foster (1989–1992)
Bob Biggs (1993–2012)
Ron Gould (2013–2016)
Dan Hawkins (2017– )

Stanford Cardinal head football coaches

No coach (1891)
Walter Camp (1892)
C. D. Bliss (1893)
Walter Camp (1894–1895)
Harry P. Cross (1896)
George H. Brooke (1897)
Harry P. Cross (1898)
Burr Chamberlain (1899)
Fielding H. Yost (1900)
Charles Fickert (1901)
Carl L. Clemans (1902)
James F. Lanagan (1903–1905)
No team (1906–1918)
Bob Evans (1919)
Walter D. Powell (1920)
Eugene Van Gent (1921)
Andrew Kerr (1922–1923)
Pop Warner (1924–1932)
Claude E. Thornhill (1933–1939)
Clark Shaughnessy (1940–1941)
Marchmont Schwartz (1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Marchmont Schwartz (1946–1950)
Chuck Taylor (1951–1957)
Jack Curtice (1958–1962)
John Ralston (1963–1971)
Jack Christiansen (1972–1976)
Bill Walsh (1977–1978)
Rod Dowhower (1979)
Paul Wiggin (1980–1983)
Jack Elway (1984–1988)
Dennis Green (1989–1991)
Bill Walsh (1992–1994)
Tyrone Willingham (1995–2001)
Buddy Teevens (2002–2004)
Walt Harris (2005–2006)
Jim Harbaugh (2007–2010)
David Shaw (2011– )

Stanford Cardinal men's basketball head coaches

H. W. Maloney (1913–1915)
E. C. Behrens (1916)
Russell Wilson (1916–1918)
Bob Evans (1918–1920)
Walter D. Powell (1920–1921)
Eugene Van Gent (1922)
Andrew Kerr (1922–1926)
Husky Hunt (1926–1930)
John Bunn (1930–1938)
Everett Dean (1938–1943)
No team (1943–1945)
Everett Dean (1945–1951)
Bob W. Burnett (1951–1954)
Howie Dallmar (1954–1975)
Dick DiBiaso (1975–1982)
Tom Davis (1982–1986)
Mike Montgomery (1986–2004)
Trent Johnson (2004–2008)
Johnny Dawkins (2008–2016)
Jerod Haase (2016– )

1914 Helms Foundation NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans

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