:W. Durant Berry

{{Short description|American football coach (1870–1953)}}

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| name = W. Durant Berry

| image = W Durant Berry.jpg

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| caption = Berry pictured in The Cincinnatian 1895, Cincinnati yearbook

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1870|9|3}}

| birth_place = Warren, Massachusetts, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1953|7|9|1870|9|3}}

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| player_positions =

| coach_years1 = 1891–1893

| coach_team1 = Centre

| coach_years2 = 1894–1895

| coach_team2 = Cincinnati

| overall_record = 19–7

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Walter Durant Berry (September 3, 1870 – July 9, 1953)[https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F4DB-HBX W. Durant Berry Biographical Information]. Family Search: Mormon Database. Retrieved on March 5, 2016. was an American college football coach. He was the first head football coach at the University of Cincinnati, serving from 1894 to 1895 and compiling a record of 6–6.[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=164 W. Durant Berry] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211927/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=164 |date=March 3, 2016 }}. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on March 5, 2016 Berry later worked as a doctor in New England. In 1903, he married Helen Warren Upham.

Berry had previously been a head football coach at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky from 1981 to 1893, compiling a record of 13 wins and 1 loss.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezEs-Pm3n9cC&q=walter+durant+berry&pg=PA12|title=Cincinnati Hoops|first=Kevin|last=Grace|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2003|isbn=9780738532011|access-date=January 16, 2018}} He died in 1953."United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP8D-S82P : 5 December 2018), Walter D Berry, 12 Oct 1917; citing Military Service, NARA microfilm publication 76193916 (St. Louis: National Archives and Records Administration, 1985), various roll numbers.