Floyd Burdette Schwartzwalder (June 2, 1909 – April 28, 1993) was a football coach at Syracuse University, where he trained future National Football League (NFL) stars such as Jim Brown, Larry Csonka, Floyd Little and Ernie Davis, the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.

He is in the school's Hall of Fame Schwartzwalder was also a hero of the D-Day invasion and several other important engagements of World War II.

He played center at West Virginia University, despite weighing only 146 pounds, and was an all-campus wrestler in 1930 in the 155-pound weight class.

In 1941, he was coach of Canton McKinley High School in Ohio when, even though he was in his 30s, he was commissioned in the US Army and fought in World War II.

He played key roles in the capture of the La Fière Causeway and Sainte-Mère-Église, crucial points of entry into France during the D-Day invasion.

He organized an athletic league from among the soldiers being assembled in England in preparation for D-Day in order to keep the troops motivated and fit.

On September 23, 2023, prior to the game against Army, his name was placed in the Ring of Honor in the JMA Wireless Dome on the campus of Syracuse University.