David Livingston Crawford (March 7, 1889 – January 18, 1974) was an American
entomologist
Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...
, coach of
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
and
basketball, and college professor and administrator. He served as the head football coach at the
University of Hawaii from 1917 to 1919. He also coached the Hawaii basketball team during the 1918–19 season. Crawford attended
Pomona College and
Cornell University. He taught at Pomona before coming to Hawaii, where he was head of the entomology department. Crawford served as president of the University of Hawaii from 1927 to 1941. He was the president of Doane College—now known as
Doane University—in
Crete, Nebraska from 1948 to 1954. Crawford died on January 18, 1974, of Parkinson's disease, at a nursing home in
Moorestown Township, New Jersey
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.
Head coaching record
Football
References
1889 births
1974 deaths
20th-century American zoologists
American entomologists
Cornell University alumni
Hawaii Rainbow Warriors basketball coaches
Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football coaches
Leaders of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Pomona College alumni
Pomona College faculty
University of Hawaiʻi faculty
People from Hermosillo
Neurological disease deaths in New Jersey
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
20th-century American academics
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