Daniel Charles McAuliffe (November 25, 1895 - August 8, 1983) was an American football coach and university administrator.

He was associated with Montana Technological University for 43 years from 1923 to 1966, holding post including football and basketball coach, athletic director, mathematics instructor, dean, and vice president.

He attended Butte High School, where he competed for the football and basketball teams, set an interscholastic record in the pole vault, and graduated in 1914.

He was wounded twice in action, was credited with destroying a German machine gun nest, and received the Distinguished Service Cross and the Croix de Guerre.

In 1921, he became a coach and mathematics teacher at Custer County High School in Miles City, Montana.