Charles Crawford "Doc" Stroud (October 23, 1870 – December 8, 1949) was an

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, and

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coach and college athletics administrator. Stroud was born on October 26, 1870, in

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, and attended Putnam High School in Putnam, Connecticut. He graduated from

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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

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, before returning to Tufts in 1895 to attend Tufts Medical College and coach football. Stroud earned a 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

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. In 1910, Stroud was hired as the

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. He left Mercer in 1913 to become the athletic director at

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(LSU). At LSU, he also served as head coach for the

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and

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teams. He coached the men's basketball team from 1913 to 1918 and compiled a record of 63 wins and 19 losses. He coached the baseball team for eight seasons from 1914 to 1921 and compiled a record of 75–58–5. Stroud was also the head baseball coach and athletic director at Louisiana State Normal School—now known as

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–

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. He is the namesake of H. Alvin Brown–C. C. Stroud Field. Stroud died on December 8, 1949, in Natchitoches.

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