| Victor Dauer | |
| Birth Date: | 14 April 1909 |
| Birth Place: | Hammond, Indiana |
| Player Sport1: | Football |
| Player Years2: | 1929–1931 |
| Player Team2: | Indiana |
| Player Sport3: | Basketball |
| Player Years4: | 1930–1933 |
| Player Team4: | Indiana |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1934–1935 |
| Coach Team2: | Cannelton HS (IN) |
| Coach Years3: | 1936 |
| Coach Team3: | Muncie Central HS (IN) (assistant) |
| Coach Years4: | 1937–1940 |
| Coach Team4: | Wabash HS (IN) |
| Coach Years5: | 1941 |
| Coach Team5: | Valparaiso |
| Coach Years6: | 1943 |
| Coach Team6: | Camp Davis (assistant) |
| Coach Sport7: | Basketball |
| Coach Years8: | 1943–1944 |
| Coach Team8: | Camp Davis |
| Coach Sport9: | Baseball |
| Coach Years10: | 1942 |
| Coach Team10: | Valparaiso |
| Admin Years1: | 1941–1942 |
| Admin Team1: | Valparaiso |
| Admin Years2: | 1947–? |
| Admin Team2: | Springfield (MA) (assistant AD) |
| Overall Record: | 0–8 (college football) 0–1 (college baseball) |
Victor P. Dauer (April 14, 1909 – September 30, 2000) was an American football and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football and head baseball coach at Valparaiso University during the 1941–42 academic year.
Dauer was born on April 14, 1909, in Hammond, Indiana. He graduated from Emerson High School in Gary, Indiana.[1] He played college football and college basketball at Indiana University Bloomington.[2]
Dauer served as an officer in the United States Army during World War II. He was an assistant coach for the 1943 Camp Davis Fighting AA's football team and was head coach of Camp Davis's basketball team in 1943–44.[3]
In 1947, he was appointed assistant professor and assistant athletic director Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1949, he moved to Washington State University as an assistant professor in the Men's Physical Education Department. Dauer earned a PhD in education from the University of Michigan in 1951.[4]