Fletcher Lane was an American college basketball coach for the University of Illinois from 1907 to 1908.

[1][2] Even though he led his team to a positive record, the university, as well as the athletes, deemed Lane's coaching style as subpar.

While at the University of Illinois he began taking law classes and became a founding member of the Sigma Pi fraternity chapter there.

[5] He was a World War I veteran and had a primary occupation of teacher for all of his adult life.

Lane died on July 12, 1949, in Waco, Texas, and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery.