| Fred Dawson | |
| Birth Date: | 26 April 1884 |
| Birth Place: | Warren, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1912–1916 |
| Coach Team2: | Union (NY) |
| Coach Years3: | 1917 |
| Coach Team3: | Princeton (freshmen) |
| Coach Years4: | 1918–1919 |
| Coach Team4: | Columbia |
| Coach Years5: | 1921–1924 |
| Coach Team5: | Nebraska |
| Coach Years6: | 1925–1928 |
| Coach Team6: | Denver |
| Coach Years7: | 1931–1933 |
| Coach Team7: | Virginia |
| Coach Sport8: | Basketball |
| Coach Years9: | 1912–1917 |
| Coach Team9: | Union (NY) |
| Coach Years10: | 1918–1919 |
| Coach Team10: | Columbia |
| Coach Sport11: | Baseball |
| Coach Years12: | 1918 |
| Coach Team12: | Princeton |
| Coach Years13: | 1919 |
| Coach Team13: | Columbia |
| Admin Years1: | 1922–1925 |
| Admin Team1: | Nebraska |
| Overall Record: | 79–55–13 (football) 56–24 (basketball) 11–11 (baseball) |
Frederick Thomas Dawson (April 26, 1884 – August 18, 1965) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Union College in Schenectady, New York (1912–1916), Columbia University (1918–1919), the University of Nebraska (1921–1924), the University of Denver (1925–1928), and the University of Virginia (1931–1933). Dawson also coached the basketball team at Columbia during the 1918–19 season and baseball at Princeton University in 1918 and at Columbia in 1919.
Dawson was born to Sylvester and Elizabeth Peers Dawson, the 11th of 12 children. Dawson was a 1910 graduate of Princeton University.
Health problems eventually forced Dawson to leave the coaching field. After retiring from coaching, he became an industrial psychologist and a well known public speaker. Dawson died on August 18, 1965, at a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.[1]