Byrd D. Crudup facts for kids
Biographical details | |
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Born | Edenton, North Carolina |
September 15, 1897
Died | March 12, 1960 Charlotte, North Carolina |
(aged 62)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1922–1924 | Lincoln (PA) |
Position(s) | End |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1929–1931 | North Carolina College |
1935–1940 | Dillard |
1946–1949 | Johnson C. Smith |
Basketball | |
1927–1928 | North Carolina College |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1935–? | Dillard |
1946–1960 | Johnson C. Smith |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 21–65–10 (football) 0–6 (basketball) |
Bowls | 1–1 |
Byrd D. Crudup (September 15, 1897 – March 12, 1960) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the North Carolina College for Negroes—now known as North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina—from 1929 to 1931, Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1935 to 1940, and at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1946 to 1949. Crudup was also head basketball coach at North Carolina Central for one season, in 1927–28.
Early life, playing career, and education
Crudup was born on September 15, 1897, in Edenton, North Carolina, to Byrd Crudup and Delia Stark Crudup. He graduated from Rindge Manual Training School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Crudup played college football at Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania. He was named to the All-Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) team in 1923 and 1924 and was captain of the 1924 Lincoln Lions football team, which won the CIAA title and a black college football national championship.
Crudup graduated from Lincoln with an A.B. degree in 1925 and earned Master of Education degree from Boston University in 1939. He also did additional studies at Boston University and Harvard University.
Head coaching record
Football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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North Carolina College Eagles (Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1929–1931) | |||||||||
1929 | North Carolina College | 1–7–1 | 0–6 | 9th | |||||
1930 | North Carolina College | 3–6–1 | 2–5–1 | T–8th | |||||
1931 | North Carolina College | 5–4–1 | 5–3 | 5th | |||||
North Carolina College: | 8–17–3 | 7–14–1 | |||||||
Dillard Bleu Devils (Independent) (1935–1940) | |||||||||
1935 | Dillard | 1–3–1 | |||||||
1936 | Dillard | 1–4 | |||||||
1937 | Dillard | 2–3–1 | |||||||
1938 | Dillard | 4–2 | |||||||
1939 | Dillard | 1–5 | |||||||
1940 | Dillard | 0–5–1 | |||||||
Dillard: | 9–22–3 | ||||||||
Johnson C. Smith Golden Bulls (Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1946–1949) | |||||||||
1946 | Johnson C. Smith | 0–7–2 | 0–6–2 | 14th | L Pecan Bowl | ||||
1947 | Johnson C. Smith | 1–8 | 1–7 | 16th | |||||
1948 | Johnson C. Smith | 0–7–1 | 0–7–1 | 14th | |||||
1949 | Johnson C. Smith | 3–4–1 | 2–4–1 | 12th | W Iodine Bowl | ||||
Johnson C. Smith: | 4–26–4 | 3–24–4 | |||||||
Total: | 21–65–10 |