Hobey Baker
American amateur athlete (1892-1918) · United States · On the map · Athletes · Died at 26
Hobart Amory Hare "Hobey" Baker was an American amateur athlete of the early twentieth century. Considered the first American star in ice hockey by the Hockey Hall of Fame, he was also an accomplished American football player.
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Baker while a student at St. Paul's School
Baker while a member of the Princeton football team
Baker as a member of the Princeton hockey team
Percy Rivington Pyne 2nd, Baker's close friend.
Jeanne Marie "Mimi" Scott, Baker's onetime fiancée
Baker as a fighter pilot in World War I. He had three confirmed kills during the war.
Baker's grave in West Laurel Hill CemeteryAwards
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Born into a prominent family from the Philadelphia area, he enrolled at Princeton University in 1910. Baker excelled on the university's hockey and football teams, and became a noted amateur hockey player for the St. Nicholas Hockey Club in New York City. He was a member of three national championship teams, for football in 1911 and hockey in 1912 and 1914, and helped the St. Nicholas Club win a national amateur championship in 1915. Baker graduated from Princeton in 1914 and worked for J.P. Morgan Bank until he enlisted in the United States Army Air Service. During World War I he served with the 103rd and the 13th Aero Squadrons before being promoted to captain and named commander of the 141st Aero Squadron. Baker died in December 1918 after a plane he was test-piloting crashed, hours before he was due to leave France and return to America.
