Fred Van Buren Archer (October 6, 1888 – January 1971) was the head football coach for the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team.

[1] Archer was from Ottawa, Illinois[2] He was a graduate of Hanover College, having received a Bachelor of Science degree there in 1910.

[3] He was also a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity during his college years.

Before coming to North Dakota, Archer taught at a school in McCook, Nebraska and later, in 1912, chemistry and physics at Ottawa, Illinois.

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