John Yocum Randolph Crawford^[1] (August 4, 1915 – February 14, 1976) was an American bridge and backgammon player.

In bridge, he was a member of United States teams that won the first three Bermuda Bowls, or world teams championships, in 1950, 1951 and 1953; a wholly new team represented the US in 1954. In backgammon, Crawford is known as the inventor of the "Crawford rule", a regulation that restricts use of the doubling die in match play.

Of Scots descent, the younger son of Andrew Wright Crawford Sr. (1873–1929), a town planner, he was born at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and died in Manhattan aged 60. He was married to Carol Stolkin, née Ross, also a celebrated backgammon player.^[2]

• Canasta (New York: JCS Associates, 1950; London: Faber, 1951)
• Samba, three-deck canasta (Doubleday, 1951)
• How to be a consistent winner in the most popular card games (Doubleday, 1953); revised 1961
• Contract bridge (Grosset & Dunlap, 1953), Crawford assisted by Fred L. Karpin
• Calypso: how to play and win the fascinating new card game (Doubleday, 1955)
• The backgammon book (Viking Press, 1970), Oswald Jacoby and Crawford

The latter was soon translated.

• Das Backgammonbuch, German transl. by Jens Schmidt-Prange and Suzanne Gangloff (Munich: Keyser, 1974)
• Le livre du backgammon, French transl. by René Orléan, 1975

• Clan Crawford