Russell J. Crane (1906/1907 - March 18, 1966) was an American college football player and coach and boxer.
[1] He was a prominent guard for coach Robert Zuppke's Illinois Fighting Illini,[2] captain in 1929.
[3] Crane was an assistant football coach at the University of Richmond from 1935 to 1938.
[4] He died of pulmonary heart disease in Monongalia County, West Virginia, on March 18, 1966, at age 59.
This biographical article relating to a college football coach first appointed in the 1930s is a stub.