Melvin Lane Vines was an American football player and coach. He was a high school football head coach for 28 seasons in the state of Alabama during the years from 1930 to 1941 and 1944, 1946 and 1948-1961 where he compiled a record of 135–101–21. Vines also served as the head football coach at the University of Tampa in 1942. As a college football player, he was a member of two national championship teams at the University of Alabama where he played on the first Southern teams to compete in The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.