Arthur R. Hall
![]() Hall pictured in The Illio 1912, Illinois yearbook | |
Biographical details | |
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Born | Tonica, Illinois | June 4, 1869
Died | December 4, 1955 East Lynn, Illinois | (aged 86)
Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1902) |
Playing career | |
1898–1900 | Illinois |
Position(s) | End |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1904, 1907–1912 | Illinois |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 36–12–4 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
1 Western (1910) | |
Arthur Raymond Hall (June 4, 1869 – December 4, 1955) was an American football player and coach.[1] He served as head football coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1904—along with Justa Lindgren, Fred Lowenthal, and Clyde Matthews—and alone from 1907 to 1912, compiling a record of 36–12–4. Hall was the first man to coach the Fighting Illini for longer than five seasons, leading them to the Big Ten Conference championship in 1910.
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1907 NCAA football guide featuring Illini Football. The guide was the official rules book and record book of college football
He was born in Tonica, Illinois in 1869 and died at East Lynn, Illinois in 1955.[2]
Head coaching record[]
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Illinois Fighting Illini (Western Conference) (1904) | |||||||||
1904 | Illinois | 9–2–1 | 3–1–1 | 4th | |||||
Illinois Fighting Illini (Western Conference) (1907–1912) | |||||||||
1907 | Illinois | 3–2 | 3–2 | 4th | |||||
1908 | Illinois | 5–1–1 | 4–1 | 2nd | |||||
1909 | Illinois | 5–2 | 3–1 | T–2nd | |||||
1910 | Illinois | 7–0 | 4–0 | T–1st | |||||
1911 | Illinois | 4–2–1 | 2–2–1 | T–4th | |||||
1912 | Illinois | 3–3–1 | 1–3–1 | 6th | |||||
Illinois: | 36–12–4 | 20–10–3 | |||||||
Total: | 36–12–4 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth |
References[]
- ^ "Arthur Hall Papers, 1897-1955 | University of Illinois Archives".
- ^ "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time". 1967.
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Categories:
- 1869 births
- 1955 deaths
- 19th-century players of American football
- American football ends
- Illinois Fighting Illini football coaches
- Illinois Fighting Illini football players
- People from Tonica, Illinois
- College football coaches first appointed in the 1900s stubs