Fred V. Archer

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| name = Fred V. Archer

| image = ArcherFV.png

| caption = Fred Archer pictured in Ravone 1909, Hanover yearbook

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1888|10|6}}

| birth_place = Vevay, Indiana, U.S.

| death_date = January 1971 (aged 82)

| death_place = Winchester, Massachusetts, U.S.

| alma_mater = Hanover College (1910)

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| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1913

| coach_team2 = North Dakota

| coach_sport3 = Basketball

| coach_years4 = 1913–1914

| coach_team4 = North Dakota

| overall_record = 2–4 (football)
10–7 (basketball)

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Fred Van Buren Archer (October 6, 1888 – January 1971) was the head football coach for the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team. He compiled an overall record of 2–4. He was born in Vevay, Indiana in 1888.{{cite web |url= https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11812-41700-56?cc=1861144&wc=MMRW-BL4:561402122 |title=View Images — |publisher=Familysearch.org |access-date=December 20, 2012}}

Archer was from Ottawa, Illinois{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/quarterlyjourna02dakogoog/quarterlyjourna02dakogoog_djvu.txt |title=Full text of "The Quarterly journal of the University of North Dakota, Volume 3" |access-date=December 20, 2012}} He was a graduate of Hanover College, having received a Bachelor of Science degree there in 1910.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ws3OAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Fred+V+Archer%22+AND+%22North+Dakota%22 |title=The Quarterly Journal - University of North Dakota - University of North Dakota - Google Books |year=1914 |via=Google Books|access-date=December 20, 2012}} He was also a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity during his college years.

Before coming to North Dakota, Archer taught at a school in McCook, Nebraska and later, in 1912, chemistry and physics at Ottawa, Illinois.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LrooAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qAUGAAAAIBAJ&pg=969,1466135&dq=fred+archer+hanover+college&hl=en|title=The Ottawa Free Trader - Google News Archive Search|access-date=September 22, 2014}} He married Gladys Richardson in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 1, 1914.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nOASAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Fred+v+archer%22+hanover+married |title=The Phi Gamma Delta - Google Books |via=Google Books|date=June 30, 2004 |access-date=December 20, 2012}}{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N4XM-QY8|title=Person Details for Fred Van Buren Archer, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1841-1915" — FamilySearch.org|publisher=familysearch.org|access-date=September 22, 2014}} Archer was living in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1925.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UBzPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Archer,+fred+v%22+hanover+college |title=The Phi Gamma Delta - Google Books |via=Google Books|date=June 30, 2004 |access-date=December 20, 2012}} He died at Winchester, Massachusetts in 1971.{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JP3Y-N4H|title=Person Details for Fred Archer, "United States Social Security Death Index" — FamilySearch.org|publisher=familysearch.org|access-date=September 22, 2014}}