John Dunlop (American football)

John William Dunlop (April 23, 1874 – April 7, 1957) was an American football player and coach. He served as the fifth head football coach at Boston College, coaching four seasons between 1897 and 1901 and compiling a record of 16–16–2. Boston College did not field a football team in 1900.

In 1922, Dunlop was residing in Boston, working as a real estate, mortgage and insurance broker. He was married to Alice Lillian Hall, whom he wed on October 25, 1899, and had two children, Lydia and John William, Jr.. He later entered in a partnership with Stephen W. Sleeper, a fellow Harvard alumnus, to form the real estate firm Sleeper & Dunlop.

He died at Westborough, Massachusetts in 1957.