Francis Baker

Francis Baker attended Hamilton College in upstate New York where he played for coach Albert Prettyman, who led the 1936 US Olympic ice hockey team. Prettyman brought him along as a back-up goalie although Baker never played in a game at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936.

After the Winter Olympics Baker finished his college degree at Hamilton and then earned a medical degree. He served in World War II with the US Army Medical Corps, landing at Normandy on D-Day plus two. He later became an orthopaedic surgeon in upstate New York.