John Harlan "Speedy" Rush (1874 – August 31, 1958) was an American football player and coach and track athlete.

He played football at Grinell College as a halfback before entering Princeton in 1897.

At Princeton Rush ran track, worked as a newspaper correspondent, and attended football practice.

Rush graduated from Princeton in 1898 and relocated to Cleveland, Ohio, where he coached football and a number of other sports at University School, a private preparatory school.

[1] Rush died at the age of 84, on August 31, 1958, at his daughter's home in Garden City, New York.