Edgar Fauver (May 7, 1875 – April 4, 1946) was an American athlete, coach, university administrator and medical doctor.

[1] According to a 1936 newspaper account, Fauver was "considered the most brilliant performer in football and baseball who ever attended Oberlin College.

[2][8] In September 1903, Fauver became the director of the physical training department at the Horace Mann Academy in New York City.

[9] After receiving his degree, Fauver also served as an assistant professor of physical education at Columbia University from 1909 to 1911.

In fact they are so keen that Dr. Edgar Fauver, the athletic coach, is beset, three times a week, by one hundred enthusiasts, all clamoring at once for a place on the teams.

In June 1910, The Washington Post reported on Fauver's experiment with women's baseball:"Baseball for college girls was introduced at Barnard College a year ago this spring by Edgar Fauver, assistant professor of physical education at Columbia University.

From 40 to 60 girls are to be found playing nearly every day, and there is a regular series of class games in which the greatest rivalry is shown.

[2][13] In 1911, Fauver accepted a position as an associate professor of physical education at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

[2] When an outbreak of smallpox hit the Wesleyan campus in 1914, Dr. Fauver, as the college physician, personally vaccinated practically all of the university's students.

[17] At the annual meeting of the NCAA in December 1921, Fauver spoke in opposition to the menace of "big money" in college sports.

He pointed out that the lure of immense gate receipts and the need to maintain an elaborate athletic system would result in attempts to get winning teams at any price and by any means.