Benjamin Howard Baker
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| Full name | Benjamin Howard Baker | ||
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| Place of birth | Liverpool, England | ||
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| Place of death | Warminster, England | ||
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| Youth career | |||
| Marlborough Old Boys (Liverpool) | |||
| Liverpool Balmoral | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1913–1914 | Blackburn Rovers | 0 | (0) |
| 1914–1915 | Preston North End | 0 | (0) |
| 1919–1920 | Liverpool | 0 | (0) |
| 1919–1933 | Corinthian | ? | (?) |
| 1921 | Everton | 2 | (0) |
| 1921–1926 | Chelsea | 92 | (1) |
| 1926 | Everton | 11 | (0) |
| 1928–1929 | Oldham Athletic | 1 | (0) |
| Total | 106 | (1) | |
| International career | |||
| 1921–1925 | England | 2 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
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Benjamin Howard Baker[2] (13 February 1892 – 10 September 1987) was an English athlete who excelled in a wide range of sports, mostly in association football and high jump.[3][4]
Biography
In team sports, Baker was goalkeeper for England, Chelsea,[5] Everton and Oldham Athletic football clubs, having previously played for the renowned amateur team, the Corinthians. He played for the "Amateurs" in the 1925 FA Charity Shield.[6] He was also an international-level water polo goalkeeper.[4] Baker initially played as a defender and took the keeper position after his ankle was damaged in a naval mine sweeping operation during World War I.[3]
In tennis singles, doubles and mixed doubles, Baker competed in the 1929 Northern Qualifying Tournament for Wimbledon without making the main draw in any event and won the 1932 Welsh Covered Courts tennis competition.[3][4]
Individually, Baker held British records in the high jump (1.95 m, from 1921 to 1946)[4] and triple jump.[7] Baker became the National high jump champion for the first time after winning the AAA Championships title at the 1910 AAA Championships.[8][9] He would go on to be the British champion from 1910 through to 1921, by virtue of either winning the AAA title or being the best placed British athlete in the event. His outright successes came in 1910, 1912, 1913,[10] 1919, 1920 and 1921.[11][12]
Baker competed in jump events at the 1912 and 1920 Olympic Games and finished in 6–11th places.[13] At the Northern Counties Championships he won the high jump (1911–14, 1919–21), 120 yd hurdles (1921) and discus throw (1920); he also won the long jump at the 1920 Northern Olympic Trials. After retiring from sports, Baker joined the family firm that produces soap and chemicals and became a renowned businessman in the Liverpool area.[4]
Although Baker was sometimes known as Benjamin Howard-Baker (such as in 'Play Up Corinth - A history of the Corinthian Football Club') his baptism record at St Margaret, Anfield on 28 March 1892 shows his Christian names as 'Benjamin Howard', and his surname as 'Baker'. His father had the same name.[14]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Achates (21 August 1922). "Few big transfers in the First Division of the Football League. Chelsea". Athletic News. Manchester. p. 5.
- ^ Sources differ as to whether his surname was Baker, Howard-Baker or Howard Baker
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Richard William Cox; Dave Russell; Wray Vamplew (2002). Encyclopedia of British Football. Psychology Press. pp. 15–. ISBN 978-0-7146-5249-8.
- ^ a b c d e Howard Baker Script error: No such module "webarchive".. sports-reference.com
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Player Profile: Benjamin Howard Baker". stamford-bridge.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Professionals v. Amateurs – selected teams for annual match". Derby Daily Telegraph. 26 September 1929. p. 10. Retrieved 21 March 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Prentice, David (30 September 2014). "Roberto Martinez hails 'phenomenal' Tyias Browning after impressive Everton FC debut". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Athletics". Evening Star. 3 July 1910. Retrieved 1 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."AAA Championships". The Scotsman. 4 July 1910. Retrieved 1 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Athletic Championships". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 7 July 1913. Retrieved 11 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Athletics". Northern Whig. 2 July 1921. Retrieved 30 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Benjamin Howard Baker". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
- ^ ancestry.co.uk
External links
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