Victor Dauer

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.

Victor Dauer

Dauer pictured in The Beacon 1942, Valparaiso yearbook
Biographical details
Born	(1909-04-14)April 14, 1909 Hammond, Indiana
Died	September 30, 2000(2000-09-30) (aged 91)
Playing career
Football
1929–1931	Indiana
Basketball
1930–1933	Indiana
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1934–1935	Cannelton HS (IN)
1936	Muncie Central HS (IN) (assistant)
1937–1940	Wabash HS (IN)
1941	Valparaiso
Baseball
1942	Valparaiso
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1941–1942	Valparaiso
1947–?	Springfield (MA) (assistant AD)
Head coaching record
Overall	0–8 (college football) 0–1 (college baseball)

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 in the United States Army during World War II. 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.[3]