| Eugene Van Gent | |
| Birth Date: | 23 December 1889 |
| Birth Place: | Ottumwa, Iowa, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Solano County, California, U.S. |
| Player Sport1: | Football |
| Player Years2: | 1911, 1913 |
| Player Team2: | Wisconsin |
| Player Sport3: | Basketball |
| Player Years4: | 1911–1914 |
| Player Team4: | Wisconsin |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1916 |
| Coach Team2: | Texas |
| Coach Years3: | 1919 |
| Coach Team3: | Texas (assistant) |
| Coach Years4: | 1920 |
| Coach Team4: | University Farm |
| Coach Years5: | 1921 |
| Coach Team5: | Stanford |
| Coach Sport6: | Basketball |
| Coach Years7: | 1914–1916 |
| Coach Team7: | Missouri |
| Coach Years8: | 1916–1917 |
| Coach Team8: | Texas |
| Coach Years9: | 1921–1922 |
| Coach Team9: | Stanford |
| Overall Record: | 14–8–3 (football) 42–19 (basketball) |
| Championships: | Football 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.
During his two seasons as basketball head coach at the University of Missouri, from 1914 to 1916, Van Gent led to the Tigers to a 21–9 overall record. The University of 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 World War I. 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]