| Vee Green | |
| Birth Date: | 9 October 1900 |
| Birth Place: | Oakwood, Illinois, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Urbana, Illinois, U.S. |
| Player Sport1: | Football |
| Player Years2: | 1922–1923 |
| Player Team2: | Illinois |
| Player Years3: | 1926 |
| Player Team3: | Louisville Colonels |
| Player Positions: | Center |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1924–1927 |
| Coach Team2: | Waukegan HS (IL) |
| Coach Years3: | 1928–1932 |
| Coach Team3: | Oklahoma City |
| Coach Years4: | 1933–1946 |
| Coach Team4: | Drake |
| Coach Sport5: | Basketball |
| Coach Years6: | 1930–1933 |
| Coach Team6: | Oklahoma City |
| Coach Years7: | 1944–1946 |
| Coach Team7: | Drake |
| Coach Sport8: | Baseball |
| Coach Years9: | 1940–1942 |
| Coach Team9: | Drake |
| Admin Years1: | ?–1933 |
| Admin Team1: | Oklahoma City |
| Admin Years2: | 1940–? |
| Admin Team2: | Drake |
| Overall Record: | 103–72–10 (college football) 32–41 (college basketball) 24–7–1 (high school football) |
| Bowl Record: | 1–0 |
| Championships: | As coach:
As player: |
Vivian Julius "Vee" Green[1] (October 9, 1900 – May 12, 1967) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, college athletics administrator, and radio color commentator and sports announcer.[2] He served as the head football coach at Oklahoma City University from 1928 to 1932 and at Drake University for fourteen seasons from 1933 to 1946. Green was also the head basketball coach at Oklahoma City from 1930 to 1933 and at Drake from 1944 to 1946, tallying a career college basketball mark of 32–41. A native of Urbana, Illinois, Green played college football at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1922 to 1923. He played as a center and was a teammate of Red Grange.
Later in his life, Green did color commentary and football analysis for the AM station WHO in Des Moines, Iowa. He did frequent sports broadcasts alongside Jim Zabel[3] including for Iowa's famous 1953 14–14 tie at Norte Dame.[4]
In the fall of 1966, Green was diagnosed with glioblastoma. Green died at age 66 on May 12, 1967, from brain cancer.[5]
Green was the son of Lincoln Hamlin Green of Ohio and Mary Esther (Cranston) Green of Illinois, and had one sister. Vee Green married Iowan Lois Hardaway on February 5, 1954. They had 3 children.