Eugene V. Baker

Eugene Vanvoy Baker (born New York City, December 21, 1864, died Los Angeles, CA, October 16, 1942 was a pioneer college football player and coach for the Yale Bulldogs of Yale University.[1][2][3] Playing alongside Walter Camp,[4][5] he was captain of the 1876 and 1877 teams, which includes the first Yale team to defeat Harvard. A plaque in Yale's trophy room read "In Recognition of the Services of Eugene V. Baker, '77 The Organizer and Captain of Yale's First Victorious Football Team This Room Has been Furnished and The Tablet Placed Here By His Classmates 1893. He later became a major land developer in California. A biography of his father Orrin a Smith Baker is in Robert S. Davis, Ghosts and Shadows of Andersonville. Photographs of the Baker family is in the Hargrett Library of the University of Georgia Libraries."[6][7]

Eugene V. Baker
Yale Bulldogs
PositionBack
Career history
CollegeYale (1873–1877)
Career highlights and awards
  • National championship (1876, 1877)
Not to be confused with Eugene Baker.

References
  1. "The Father of American football". Los Angeles Herald. 29. January 5, 1902.
  2. Wiley Lee Umphlett. Creating the Big Game: John W. Heisman and the Invention of American Football. p. 8.
  3. "History". Archived from the original on 2015-04-30. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  4. "1877 Telegram from Eugene V. Baker".
  5. PFRA Research. "Camp and his Followers" (PDF).
  6. Parke H. Davis. Football, the American Intercollegiate Game. p. 70.
  7. Herbert M. Sedgwick. "Yale's Great Trophy Room". The Illustrated American. 21: 638.
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