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{{Short description|American middle-distance runner (1875–1972)}}
{{for|other athletes|David Hall (disambiguation)#Sports}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = David Hall
| image = Hall 1900.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1875|5|1}}
| birth_place = [[Sherbrooke|Sherbrooke, Quebec]], Canada
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1972|5|27|1875|5|1}}
| death_place = [[Seattle|Seattle, Washington]], U.S.
| alma_mater = [[Brown University]]<br>[[University of Chicago]]<br>[[Rush Medical College]]
| player_sport1 = Track and field
| player_years2= 1899–1901
| player_team2= [[Brown Bears track and field|Brown]]
| coach_sport1 = Basketball
| coach_years2 = 1907–1908
| coach_team2 = [[Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball|Oklahoma]]
| coach_years3 = 1908–1910
| coach_team3 = [[Washington Huskies men's basketball|Washington]]
| coach_sport4 = Track and field
| coach_team5 = [[Washington Huskies track and field|Washington]]
| coach_years5 = 1909–1910
| coach_team6 = [[Washington Huskies track and field|Washington]]
| coach_years6 = 1912–1914
| overall_record = {{Winning percentage|27|10|record=y}} (basketball)
| bowl_record = 
| tournament_record = 
| championships = 
| awards = 
| coaching_records = 
| medaltemplates = 
{{MedalSport|Men's [[Sport of athletics|athletics]]}}
{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1900 Summer Olympics|1900 Paris]] | [[Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres|800 metres]]}}
}}

'''David Connolly Hall''' (May 1, 1875 – May 27, 1972)  was an American [[track and field|track]] athlete, track and [[basketball]] coach, and university professor. He served as the head basketball coach at [[University of Oklahoma]] from 1907 to 1908 and at [[University of Washington]] from 1908 to 1910.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gohuskies.com/documents/2023/5/8/Record_Book_23-24.pdf|title=2023–24 Washington Huskies Men's Basketball Record Book|publisher=University of Washington|page=32|access-date=June 29, 2023}}</ref>

He was born in [[Sherbrooke]], [[Quebec]], Canada and died in [[Seattle]]. He won the [[bronze medal]] in the [[800 metres]] [[track and field]] race at the [[1900 Summer Olympics]] in [[Paris]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/dave-hall-1.html |title=Dave Hall Biography and Olympic Results &#124; Olympics at Sports-Reference.com |access-date=March 4, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025134619/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/dave-hall-1.html |archive-date=October 25, 2012 }} Sports Reference</ref> His time in the final is unknown.<!-- provide source for 2:02.6; the main article on athletics says 2nd place was 2:03.0 Second Note: Sports reference lists all non-winning times of that era based on distance behind the winner--> The race was won by [[Alfred Tysoe]], who had taken second in the preliminary heat which Hall had won with a time of 1:59.0. Hall also competed in the 1500 metres at the 1900 Olympics, placing fourth.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78501 |title=David Hall |work=Olympedia |access-date=December 22, 2020}}</ref>

==Athletic career==
Hall attended [[Brown University]], where he became a champion runner and was the captain of the track and field team from 1899 to 1901.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://brownbears.com/sports/2018/5/8/all-time-list-of-team-captains-mens-track-field.aspx?id=2739|title=All-Time List of Team Captains (Men's Track and Field)|publisher=Brown University athletics|date=May 8, 2018|access-date=June 30, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Report"/>

==Coaching and academic career==
After graduating from Brown, Hall became the basketball coach at the University of Oklahoma supervise men's athletics at school.<ref name="OUHistory"/><ref name="Mines"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://soonersports.com/documents/2022/11/18/22_23_MBB_Media_Guide_Print.pdf|title=2022–23 Men's Basketball Media Guide|publisher=University of Oklahoma|access-date=June 29, 2023|pages=134}}</ref> He graduated from the [[University of Chicago]] and [[Rush Medical College]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78501|title=Dave Hall|publisher=Olympedia|access-date=June 30, 2023}}</ref> He was also a [[medical doctor]] and became a physical instructor at Washington.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=University Regents Appoint New Members of Faculty |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-seattle-star/127269885/ |newspaper=[[The Seattle Star]] |location=[[Seattle|Seattle, Washington]] |date=August 11, 1908 |page=6 |access-date=June 29, 2023 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{Open access}} }}</ref> He served as the head track and field coach at Washington from 1909 to 1910 and 1912 to 1914.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gohuskies.com/documents/2022/12/17/track22_23.pdf|title=2023 Track and Field Record Book|publisher=University of Washington athletics|page=39}}</ref>

==Head coaching record==
===Basketball===
{{CBB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | conference = | postseason = | poll = }}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name       = [[Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball|Oklahoma Sooners]]
 | conference = Independent
 | startyear  = 1907
 | endyear    = 1908
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | season     = [[1907–08 IAAUS men's basketball season|1907–08]]
 | name       = Oklahoma
 | overall    = 4–3
 | conference = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Oklahoma
 | overall    = {{Winning percentage|4|3|record=y}}
 | confrecord =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name       = [[Washington Huskies men's basketball|Washington Huskies]]
 | conference = Independent
 | startyear  = 1908
 | endyear    = 1910
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | season     = [[1908–09 IAAUS men's basketball season|1908–09]]
 | name       = Washington
 | overall    = 9–1
 | conference = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | season     = [[1909–10 IAAUS men's basketball season|1909–10]]
 | name       = Washington
 | overall    = 14–6
 | conference = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Washington
 | overall    = {{Winning percentage|23|7|record=y}}
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record End 
 | overall = {{Winning percentage|27|10|record=y}}
 | legend  = no
}}
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stats.ncaa.org/people/4152?sport_code=MBB|title=David C. Hall|publisher=NCAA statistics|access-date=June 29, 2023}}</ref>

==References==
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<ref name="Report">{{cite book | title=Report of the Commissioner-general for the United States to the International Universal Exposition, Paris, 1900| year=1901| page=231|publisher=Gov't Printing Office | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SvrNAAAAMAAJ&q=Hall&pg=PA231 |access-date=November 20, 2009}}</ref>

<ref name="OUHistory">{{cite book | title=The University of Oklahoma: a history, Volume 1| year=2005| pages=104–05|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press| isbn=9780806137032| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Wlj-XkxJfUC&pg=PA104|access-date=November 20, 2009}}</ref>

<ref name="Mines">{{cite book | title=Mines magazine| year=1915| page=14|publisher=Colorado School of Mines Alumni Association| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0mhOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA14 |access-date=November 11, 2009}}</ref>
}}

== External links ==
* {{Find a Grave|150253193}}
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