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{{Short description|American athlete and football coach (1903–1982)}}
{{Other people|Victor Hanson}}
{{Distinguish|Victor Hansen (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Vic Hanson
| image = 
| alt = 
| caption = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|7|30}}
| birth_place = [[Sacramento, California]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1982|4|10|1903|7|30}}
| death_place = [[Minoa, New York]], U.S.
| alma_mater = 
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1924–1926
| player_team2 = [[Syracuse Orange football|Syracuse]]
| player_sport3 = Basketball
| player_years4 = 1924–1927
| player_team4 = [[Syracuse Orange men's basketball|Syracuse]]
| player_positions = [[End (gridiron football)|End]] (football)
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1928–1929
| coach_team2 = [[Syracuse Orange football|Syracuse]] (assistant)
| coach_years3 = 1930–1936
| coach_team3 = Syracuse
| overall_record = 33–21–5
| bowl_record = 
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; Football
* Consensus [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1926 College Football All-America Team|1926]])
* Third-team All-American ([[1925 College Football All-America Team|1925]])
* 2× First-team All-Eastern ([[1925 All-Eastern football team|1925]], [[1926 All-Eastern football team|1926]])
; Basketball
* 3× [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] ([[1925 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1925]], [[1926 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1926]], [[1927 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1927]])
* [[Helms Foundation Player of the Year]] (1927)
* No. 8 [[Syracuse Orange men's basketball#Retired jerseys|retired by Syracuse Orange]]
| coaching_records = 
| CFBHOF_year = 1973
| BASKHOF_year = 1960
| CBBASKHOF_year = 2006
| CFBHOF_id = 1393
| BASKHOF_id = victor-a-vic-hanson
}}
'''Victor Arthur Hanson''' (July 30, 1903 – April 10, 1982) was an [[American football]] player and coach, [[basketball]] player, and [[baseball]] player.  A three-sport college athlete, he played football, basketball, and baseball at [[Syracuse University]] in the 1920s, serving as team captain in all three sports.  The [[Watertown, New York]], native was named a [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|Basketball All-American]] three times—in 1925, 1926, and 1927—by the [[Helms Athletic Foundation]] and was a consensus selection to the [[1926 College Football All-America Team]].

Following his college career he played briefly with the [[Cleveland Rosenblums]] in the [[American Basketball League (1925–55)|American Basketball League]] and then formed a basketball team, the [[Syracuse All-Americans]]. He was also signed by the [[New York Yankees]] of [[Major League Baseball]] upon graduation from Syracuse in 1927 and played one year in their farm system.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.suathletics.com/sports/2008/2/12/021208VicHanson.aspx|title=Vic Hanson|year=2013|website=suathletics.com |publisher=Syracuse University|access-date=November 23, 2013}}</ref>   Hanson served as the head football coach at his alma mater from 1930 to 1936, compiling a record of 33–21–5.  He is only player inducted into both the [[Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame]] and the [[College Football Hall of Fame]].
[[File:Jim Foley of Syracuse tackled in practice by Vic Hanson, 1924 photo by Wide World.jpg|thumb|Jim Foley of Syracuse tackled in practice by Vic Hanson, 1924.]]
==Head coaching record==
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Syracuse Orange football|Syracuse Orangemen]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1930
 | endyear   = 1936
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1930 college football season|1930]]
 | name         = [[1930 Syracuse Orangemen football team|Syracuse]]
 | overall      = 5–2–2
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 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1931 college football season|1931]]
 | name         = [[1931 Syracuse Orangemen football team|Syracuse]]
 | overall      = 7–1–1
 | conference   = 
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 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1932 college football season|1932]]
 | name         = [[1932 Syracuse Orangemen football team|Syracuse]]
 | overall      = 4–4–1
 | conference   = 
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 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1933 college football season|1933]]
 | name         = [[1933 Syracuse Orangemen football team|Syracuse]]
 | overall      = 4–4
 | conference   = 
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 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1934 college football season|1934]]
 | name         = [[1934 Syracuse Orangemen football team|Syracuse]]
 | overall      = 6–2
 | conference   = 
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 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1935 college football season|1935]]
 | name         = [[1935 Syracuse Orangemen football team|Syracuse]]
 | overall      = 6–1–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1936 college football season|1936]]
 | name         = [[1936 Syracuse Orangemen football team|Syracuse]]
 | overall      = 1–7
 | conference   = 
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 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Syracuse
 | overall    = 33–21–5
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 33–21–5
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = no
 | polltype = 
 | legend   = no
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.suathletics.com/Sports/Football/2008/021208VicHanson.asp Syracuse profile]
* {{Basketballhof|victor-a-vic-hanson}}
* {{College Football HoF|1393}}

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{{1927 Helms Foundation NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans}}
{{Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year}}
{{1960 Basketball HOF}}
{{Basketball Hall of Fame guards}}
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