John Solomon "Sap" Davis (October 21, 1898 â February 16, 1985) was an American college football and college basketball coach and athletics administrator. He served as head football coach at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas for one season, in 1930, compiling a record of 1âÂÂ6. Davis was also the athletic director and head basketball coach at Ottawa from 1927 to 1931. He moved to the State Normal School of ColoradoâÂÂnow known as the University of Northern ColoradoâÂÂin 1931 to replace George E. Cooper as head basketball coach. In 1937, Davis was hired as the head basketball coach at Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanic ArtsâÂÂnow known as Colorado State University.