Byrd D. Crudup (September 15, 1897 – March 12, 1960)[1] was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator.

Crudup was also head basketball coach at North Carolina Central for one season, in 1927–28.

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.

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