Vivian J. "Vee" Green was an American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 player, coach of football and basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, and college athletics administrator in the United States

United States

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. He served as the head football coach at Oklahoma City University

Oklahoma City University

Oklahoma City University, often referred to as OCU, is a coeducational, urban, private university historically affiliated with the United Methodist Church...

 from 1928 to 1932 and at Drake University

Drake University

Drake University is a private, co-educational university located in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The institution offers a number of undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as professional programs in law and pharmacy. Today, Drake is one of the twenty-five oldest law schools in the country....

 from 1933 to 1946. Green was also the head basketball coach at Oklahoma City from 1930 to 1932 and at Drake from 1944 to 1946, tallying a career college basketball

College basketball

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 mark of 32–41. A native of Urbana, Illinois

Urbana, Illinois

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, Green played college football

College football

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 at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1922 to 1923. He played as a center

Center (American football)

Center is a position in American football and Canadian football . The center is the innermost lineman of the offensive line on a football team's offense...

 and was a teammate of Red Grange

Red Grange

Harold Edward "Red" Grange, nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost", was a college and professional American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and for the short-lived New York Yankees. His signing with the Bears helped legitimize the National Football League...

. Green died on May 13, 1967.

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