Biographical details | |
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Born | Ottumwa, Iowa, U.S. | December 23, 1889
Died | June 12, 1949 Solano County, California, U.S. | (aged 59)
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 SWC (1916) | |
Awards | |
Basketball All-American (1914) | |
Conrad Eugene Van Gent (December 23, 1889 – June 12, 1949) was an American college football and college 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 head coaching 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 head coaching 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.