| Byrd D. Crudup | |
| Birth Date: | 15 September 1897 |
| Birth Place: | Edenton, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Player Sport1: | Football |
| Player Years2: | 1922–1924 |
| Player Team2: | Lincoln (PA) |
| Player Positions: | End |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1929–1931 |
| Coach Team2: | North Carolina College |
| Coach Years3: | 1935–1940 |
| Coach Team3: | Dillard |
| Coach Years4: | 1946–1949 |
| Coach Team4: | Johnson C. Smith |
| Coach Sport6: | Basketball |
| Coach Years7: | 1927–1928 |
| Coach Team7: | North Carolina College |
| Admin Years1: | 1935–? |
| Admin Team1: | Dillard |
| Admin Years2: | 1946–1960 |
| Admin Team2: | Johnson C. Smith |
| Overall Record: | 21–65–10 (football) 0–6 (basketball) |
| Bowl Record: | 1–1 |
Byrd D. Crudup (September 15, 1897 – March 12, 1960)[1] was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the North Carolina College for Negroes—now known as North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina—from 1929 to 1931, Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1935 to 1940, and at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1946 to 1949. Crudup was also head basketball coach at North Carolina Central for one season, in 1927–28.
Crudup was born on September 15, 1897, in Edenton, North Carolina, to Byrd Crudup and Delia Stark Crudup. He graduated from Rindge Manual Training School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Crudup played college football at Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania. He was named to the All-Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) team in 1923 and 1924 and was captain of the 1924 Lincoln Lions football team, which won the CIAA title and a black college football national championship.[2]
Crudup graduated from Lincoln with an A.B. degree in 1925 and earned Master of Education degree from Boston University in 1939. He also did additional studies at Boston University and Harvard University.[3]