Fred Gorham Folsom (November 9, 1873 – November 11, 1944) was an American football player, coach of football and baseball, lawyer, and law professor.

He served as the head football coach at the University of Colorado Boulder (1895–1899, 1901–1902, 1908–1915) and at Dartmouth College from (1903–1906), compiling a career college football record of 106–28–6.

He was also the head baseball coach at Colorado in 1898 and 1899, tallying a mark of 6–6.

[1] The football stadium at the University of Colorado, originally named Colorado Stadium, was renamed as Folsom Field in his honor in 1944.

He graduated from Dartmouth in 1895 and earned an LLB from the University of Colorado in 1899.