John Gardner Crandall Jr. (April 10, 1931 – August 23, 2008) was an

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coach. He was the third head football coach for at Azusa Pacific College—now known as

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—in

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, serving for three seasons, from 1967 to 1969, and compiling a record of 6–19–1. Crandall died of cancer in

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in 2008.

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