Eugene Van Gent

  • Class
  • Induction
    1914
  • Honors
    Men's Basketball (1914)
  • All-American in 1914
  • two-time All-Big Ten honoree in 1913 and 1914
  • lettered from 1912-14
  • member of three Big Ten championship teams and both the 1912 and 1914 Helms Foundation National Championship teams
  • also played football and ran track at Wisconsin
  • later served as the head basketball coach at Missouri (1914-16), Texas (1916-17) and Stanford (1921-22), tallying a career coaching record of 42-19
  • also served as the head football coach at Texas in 1916, at the University of California-Davis in 1920 and at Stanford in 1921, compiling a career football mark of 14-8-3
  • native of Chicago, Illinois
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