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{{Infobox NFL biography
|name=Art Van Tone
|image=
|number=
|position=[[Wingback (American football)|Wingback]]
|birth_date={{Birth date|1918|9|30}}
|birth_place=[[Ottawa, Ohio]]
|death_date={{Death date and age|1990|8|9|1918|9|30}}
|death_place=[[Conyers, Georgia]]
|height_ft=5
|height_in=10
|weight_lbs=185
|high_school=
|college=[[Southern Miss Golden Eagles football|Mississippi Southern]]
|draftyear=1949
|draftround=15
|draftpick=143
|pastteams=
* [[Detroit Lions]] (1943–1946)
|pastcoaching=
* Laurel HS (MS) (1948–1954) (head coach)
* [[Bay High School (Florida)|Bay HS (FL)]]  (1955–1959) (head coach)
* [[Austin Peay Governors football|Austin Peay]] (1960–1962) (head coach)
}}
'''Arthur M. Van Tone''' (September 30, 1918 – August 9, 1990) was an [[American football]] player and coach.  He played professionally in the [[National Football League]] (NFL) with the [[Detroit Lions]] from 1943 to 1946.<ref>[https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/V/VanTAr20.htm Art Van Tone NFL & AFL Football Statistics - Pro-Football-Reference.com]</ref>  Van Tone served as the head football coach at Austin Peay State College—now known as [[Austin Peay State University]]—from 1960 to 1962, compiling a record of 4–26.  Before he was hired at Austin Peay in January 1960, he coached [[high school football]], at Lauren High School in [[Laurel, Mississippi]] from  1948 to 1954 and [[Bay High School (Florida)|Bay High School]] in [[Panama City, Florida]] from 1955 to 1959.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=APSC Football Coach Due To Arrive Monday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32102721/the_leafchronicle/ |newspaper=[[The Leaf-Chronicle]] |location=[[Clarksville, Tennessee]] |date=January 30, 1960 |page=7 |access-date=May 30, 2019 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{Open access}} }}</ref>

==Head coaching record==
===College===
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Austin Peay Governors football|Austin Peay Governors]]
 | conf      = [[Volunteer State Athletic Conference]]
 | startyear = 1960
 | endyear   = 1962
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1960 NCAA College Division football season|1960]]
 | name         = Austin Peay
 | overall      = 2–8
 | conference   = 0–2
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1961 NCAA College Division football season|1961]]
 | name         = Austin Peay
 | overall      = 2–8
 | conference   =  1–1
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1962 NCAA College Division football season|1962]]
 | name         = Austin Peay
 | overall      = 0–10
 | conference   = 0–2
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Austin Peay
 | overall    = 4–26
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 4–26
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = no
 | polltype = 
 | legend   = no
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Footballstats |nfl= |espn= |cbs= |yahoo= |si= |pfr=V/VanTAr20 |rotoworld= }}
* {{Find a Grave|53951417}}

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[[Category:1918 births]]
[[Category:1990 deaths]]
[[Category:Austin Peay Governors football coaches]]
[[Category:Detroit Lions players]]
[[Category:Southern Miss Golden Eagles football players]]
[[Category:High school football coaches in the United States]]
[[Category:People from Ottawa, Ohio]]

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