Arthur Raymond Hall (June 4, 1869 – December 4, 1955) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

player and coach. He served as head football coach at the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Universit ...

in 1904—along with

Justa Lindgren Justa Morris Lindgren (July 28, 1878 – May 29, 1951) was an American college football player and coach. He served as head football coach at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa from 1902 to 1903 and the University of Illinois The Universi ...

Fred Lowenthal Fred Lowenthal (November 22, 1878 – October 4, 1931) was an American football player, coach, sportswriter, and attorney. He served as head football coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1904, along with Arthur R. Hall, J ...

, and

Clyde Matthews Clyde Milton Matthews, also spelled Mathews, (December 22, 1878 – December 29, 1929), was an American college football coach. He served as head football coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1904 along with Arthur R. Hal ...

—and alone from 1907 to 1912, compiling a record of 36–12–4. Hall was the first man to coach the

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for longer than five seasons, leading them to the

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championship in 1910. He was born in

Tonica, Illinois Tonica is a village in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States. The population was 749 at the 2020 census, down from 768 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Ottawa Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Tonica was originally a small hamlet ...

in 1869 and died at

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in 1955.

Head coaching record

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