Frank Louis Baker (July 23, 1909 – September 14, 1985) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

player in the

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Biography

Baker was born on July 23, 1909, in

Madison, Wisconsin Madison is the county seat of Dane County and the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census the population was 269,840, making it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 80th-lar ...

. Married to Mae Annette Sands(d) daughters Sandra Mae Baker (d) (Keller), Lucinda, and Roberta Baker (Whyburn). Grandchildren Adam, Joshua, Eugene, Anthony, Brian and Dawn.

Career

Baker played with the

Green Bay Packers The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC North, North division. It ...

during the 1931 NFL season. He played at the collegiate level at

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

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