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Charles Crawford "Doc" Stroud (October 23, 1870 – December 8, 1949) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator.

Charles C. Stroud

Biographical details
Born	(1870-10-23)October 23, 1870 Thompson, Connecticut
Died	December 8, 1949(1949-12-08) (aged 79) Natchitoches, Louisiana
Playing career
Football
c. 1893	Tufts
Baseball
c. 1893	Tufts
Position(s)	End (football)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1895	Tufts (assistant)
1905–1907	Rochester (NY)
1910–1912	Mercer
Basketball
1905–1908	Rochester (NY)
1910–1913	Mercer
1913–1918	LSU
1919–1920	LSU
Baseball
1910–1913	Mercer
1914–1921	LSU
1916–1930	Louisiana State Normal
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1910–1913	Mercer
1913–1923	LSU
1924–?	Louisiana State Normal
Head coaching record
Overall	26–23–4 (football)

Stroud was born on October 26, 1870 in Thompson, Connecticut and attended Putnam High School in Putnam, Connecticut. He graduated from Tufts College in 1894. At Tufts, he played on the varsity football and baseball team and was captain of the track team. He taught for a year at Burr and Burton Academy in Manchester, Vermont before returning to Tufts in 1895 to attend Tufts Medical College and coach football.[1] Stroud earned an Doctor of Medicine degree from Tufts in 1897 and subsequently served as the school's physical director of athletics. He resigned from his position at Tufts in 1905 to succeed J. W. H. Pollard as physical director and athletic coach at Rochester University in Rochester, New York.[2][3]

In 1910, Stroud was hired as the athletic director at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.[4] He left Mercer in 1913 to become the athletic director at Louisiana State University (LSU).[5] At LSU, he also served as head coach for the LSU basketball and LSU baseball teams.[6] He coached the men's basketball team for one season during the 1919–20 basketball season and had a 19–2 record. He coached the baseball team for eight seasons from 1914 to 1921 and compiled a record of 75–58–5. Stroud was also as the head baseball coach and athletic director at Louisiana State Normal School—now known as Northwestern State University–Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Stroud died on December 8, 1949 in Natchitoches.[7]

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Rochester Yellowjackets (Independent) (1905–1907)
1905	Rochester	4–3
1906	Rochester	2–5–2
1907	Rochester	5–4
Rochester:		11–12–2
Mercer Baptists (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1910–1912)
1910	Mercer	6–3	3–2	T–7th
1911	Mercer	4–5–1	2–5	14th
1912	Mercer	5–3–1	2–3–1	13th
Mercer:		15–11–2	7–10–1
Total:		26–23–4

References

External links

• Charles C. Stroud at Find a Grave

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