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{{Short description|American football and baseball coach (1876–1950)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Dave Cropp
| image = 
| alt = 
| caption = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1876|7|8}}
| birth_place = [[Dubuque County, Iowa]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1950|8|14|1876|7|8}}
| death_place = 
| alma_mater = 
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1899
| coach_team2 = [[Cornell Rams football|Cornell (IA)]]
| coach_years3 = 1901
| coach_team3 = [[Dakota Wesleyan Tigers football|Dakota University]]
| coach_years4 = 1903–1904
| coach_team4 = [[Colorado Buffaloes football|Colorado]]
| coach_sport5 = Baseball
| coach_years6 = 1904–1905
| coach_team6 = [[Colorado Buffaloes baseball|Colorado]]
| overall_record = 25–6–1 (football)<br>9–9 (baseball)
| bowl_record = 
| tournament_record = 
| championships = Football<br>1 [[Colorado Football Association]] (1904)
| awards = 
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}}
'''David Bertram Cropp''' (July 8, 1876 – August 14, 1950) was an American university professor and [[college football]] and [[college baseball]] coach.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Colorado: A Sports History|author=Whiteside, J.|date=1999|publisher=University Press of Colorado|isbn=9780870815508|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=feqBAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=January 10, 2015}}</ref> He served as the head football coach at [[Cornell College]] in [[Mount Vernon, Iowa]] in 1899, Dakota University—now known as [[Dakota Wesleyan University]]—in [[Mitchell, South Dakota]] in 1901, and the 	University of Colorado—now known as the [[University of Colorado at Boulder]]—in 1903 and 1904. Cropp was also the head baseball coach at Colorado in 1904 and 1905, tallying a mark of 9–9. He attended [[Lenox College]] in [[Hopkinton, Iowa]] and the University of Wisconsin—now known as the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cubuffs.com/fls/600/football/2010_Info_Guide/coaching_records_pg129.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=600 |title=Coaching Records |work=2010 Colorado Football Information Guide & Record Book |publisher=[[Colorado Buffaloes|University of Colorado Buffaloes]] |page=129 |accessdate=November 24, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316071818/http://www.cubuffs.com/fls/600/football/2010_Info_Guide/coaching_records_pg129.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=600 |archivedate=March 16, 2012 }}</ref>

Cropp married Esther Richard on December 3, 1902, in Mitchell, South Dakota.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Married Tuesday Evening |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn2001063112/1902-12-05/ed-1/seq-2/ |newspaper=The Mitchell Capital |location=[[Mitchell, South Dakota]] |date=December 5, 1902 |page=2 |access-date=September 12, 2023 |via=[[Chronicling America]] {{Open access}} }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Prof. Cropp Is Married |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-marriage-of-cropp-r/131706848/ |newspaper=[[Sioux City Journal]] |location=[[Sioux City, Iowa]] |date=December 5, 1902 |page=3 |access-date=September 12, 2023 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{Open access}} }}</ref>

==Head coaching record==
===Football===
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Cornell Rams football|Cornell Purple]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1899
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1899 college football season|1899]]
 | name         = Cornell
 | overall      = 5–2
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Cornell
 | overall    = 5–2
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Dakota Wesleyan Tigers football|Dakota University]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1901
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1901 college football season|1901]]
 | name         = Dakota University
 | overall      = 6–0
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Dakota University
 | overall    = 6–0
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Colorado Buffaloes football|Colorado Silver and Gold]]
 | conf      = [[Colorado Football Association]]
 | startyear = 1903
 | endyear   = 1904
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1903 college football season|1903]]
 | name         = [[1903 Colorado Silver and Gold football team|Colorado]]
 | overall      = 8–2
 | conference   = 4–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1904 college football season|1904]]
 | name         = [[1904 Colorado Silver and Gold football team|Colorado]]
 | overall      = 6–2–1
 | conference   = 3–1
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Colorado
 | overall    = 14–4–1
 | confrecord = 7–1
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 25–6–1
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = no
 | polltype = 
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Find a Grave}}

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[[Category:1876 births]]
[[Category:1950 deaths]]
[[Category:Colorado Buffaloes baseball coaches]]
[[Category:Colorado Buffaloes football coaches]]
[[Category:Cornell Rams football coaches]]
[[Category:Dakota Wesleyan Tigers football coaches]]
[[Category:Dakota Wesleyan University faculty]]
[[Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni]]
[[Category:People from Dubuque County, Iowa]]
[[Category:Coaches of American football from Iowa]]


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