Thomas Eugene Thompson was an American college basketball coach for the University of Illinois from 1910 to 1912.

[3] Thompson's teams included players from across the United States, some as far away as California, New Mexico and Nevada.

[4] Thompson claimed, at the time, to be the only player in Western Conference history to have played five years of collegiate basketball.

[5] After leaving the coaching ranks, he founded The Thomas C. Thompson Company in Highland Park, Illinois, a manufacturer of enamel products.

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