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69-583: Hobey Baker , famous American athlete and inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945, played two seasons in the league for the St. Nicholas Hockey Club between 1914 and 1916. Sprague Cleghorn , another Hockey Hall of Fame member, spent the 1909–10 season with the New York Wanderers , as did his brother Odie Cleghorn . During St. Nicholas Hockey Club's inaugural season in the league, in 1896–97,

138-519: A Curtiss "Jenny" flown by fellow Governors Island student Cord Meyer (a Yalie), joined a squadron of New York National Guard Jennies led by Captain Raynal Bolling , the most to have ever flown in military formation, and flew to Palmer Stadium , home of the Princeton football team. The planes performed several maneuvers, to the delight of the crowd, and Baker landed on the field, becoming

207-612: A minor character in the 1920 novel This Side of Paradise , on him. In 1921, Princeton named its new hockey arena the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink . The Hobey Baker Award was introduced in 1980, awarded annually to the best collegiate hockey player. Baker was born in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania , the second son of Alfred Thornton Baker, a wealthy upholsterer , and Mary Augusta Pemberton, a socialite. Alfred, known as Bobby to his friends, had played halfback while

276-572: A punt, and had never lost to Yale. The summer after graduation, Baker toured Europe as a celebrity correspondent for The New York Times , where he wrote about events like the Henley Royal Regatta . Through his Princeton classmates, he was hired by Wall Street insurance firm Johnson & Higgins upon his return to the United States. Soon after, another Princeton graduate offered him a job at J.P. Morgan Bank . Hired onto

345-510: A reporter that he would rather have nothing written about him. In order to leave the arena quickly after hockey games without having to deal with the public, Baker often borrowed Pyne's valet and car. During the two years that Baker played hockey with St. Nicholas, he was recognized as one of the best players in the American Amateur Hockey League and named to the post-season All-Star Teams both years. While still with

414-452: A result of engine failure, unsubstantiated rumors began to circulate that his death was not accidental. Those who knew him were aware of his reluctance to return to civilian life and his feelings over the loss of Scott. He could have returned to America and played professional sport, where he could have earned far more money than from a job in finance, but his upbringing made that impossible for him. A career in business held no appeal; during

483-483: A score of 3–2. Baker scored all three Philadelphia goals to net a hat trick . Baker began to tire of playing hockey after 1915; the constant physical play of opposing players on the ice had taken its toll, and the growing professionalism of the sport went against his belief that sports should be played for the love of the game. Looking for new adventures, in 1916 he joined a civilian aviation corps led by New York City attorney Phillip A. Carroll on Governors Island , off

552-496: A socialite known as Mimi, to whom Baker was briefly engaged late in 1918. A quiet individual, Baker was embarrassed when bank executives brought important clients by his office to see him. He quickly tired of working in an office job, and looked for ways to alleviate his boredom. Baker found enjoyment outside the office through sports. He joined the St. Nicholas Club , an amateur hockey team in New York, soon after he arrived in

621-547: A student at Princeton University in the 1880s, the same school his father had attended. One of Baker's ancestors was Francis Rawle , a Quaker who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1688 and became one of the wealthiest members of the city. Baker was named after his uncle, Dr. Hobart Amory Hare, who was the obstetrician at his birth and president of the Jefferson Medical Hospital in Philadelphia. At

690-426: A two-year trainee program, Baker earned about $ 20 per week. Baker befriended a rich New York socialite, Percy R. Pyne 2nd , who had also attended St. Paul's and Princeton. Though ten years older than Baker, they quickly became friends and Pyne allowed Baker to stay at his house at 263 Madison Avenue . Some researchers claim Baker and Pyne had a romantic relationship. Pyne later introduced Baker to Jeanne Marie Scott,

759-466: A weekend vacation with a fellow Princeton graduate, Baker revealed that he felt his life was over, and he would never again experience the thrills of football or hockey. In 1966, author John D. Davies published a biography of Baker, in which he noted that a relative of Baker's could not see a future for him in the post-war world. However, Davies refused to elaborate on what he called the "suicide theory of [Baker's] enigmatic death", as he feared that "some of

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828-586: Is Kosloff Torah Academy, an Orthodox Jewish , private all-girls high school serving the local and general Philadelphia region. The private, Catholic Merion Mercy and Waldron Mercy Academies are only a quarter mile up Montgomery Avenue in Merion. The bilingual French International School of Philadelphia , on North Highland Avenue, teaches approximately 320 children from pre-kindergarten (K3) to eighth grade in French and English. The Bala Cynwyd Public Library, part of

897-476: Is also found one block south of Montgomery on Bryn Mawr Avenue. Bala Cynwyd has also drawn a number of Modern Orthodox and Conservative Jews who live within walking distance of Lower Merion Synagogue and Congregation Adath Israel on Old Lancaster Road where Bala Cynwyd meets Merion. Churches of other denominations are located in nearby Narberth, Wynnewood, Merion, and Wynnefield/Overbrook. The Neighborhood Club of Bala Cynwyd, established in 1906, works to preserve

966-612: Is also home to Beasley Broadcast Group 's WBEN-FM , WMGK , WMMR and WPEN . iHeartMedia 's WDAS-FM , WDAS-AM , WUSL , WRFF , WUMR , and WIOQ radio stations are located on Presidential Boulevard; independently owned WBEB is located on City Avenue. CBS's WGMP (now WPHT ) left Bala Cynwyd to move to Philadelphia when NBC and CBS swapped stations in 1995, as did WTEL (formerly WIP) and WIP-FM (formerly WYSP). As of 2016, after some moves in and out of Philadelphia, CBS stations WXTU , WOGL , and WTDY are located in Bala. Bala Cynwyd

1035-623: Is also the corporate home of Entercom Communications Corporation , which is poised to be the second largest owner of radio stations in the United States, following its announcement of a merger with CBS Radio February 2, 2017. [1] Archived February 5, 2017, at the Wayback Machine Opened in 1957, Bala Cynwyd On City Avenue (formerly Bala Cynwyd Shopping Center) lies a half mile south of the village center, bordering Philadelphia on City Avenue . Its major outlets are Acme Markets , Olive Garden and LA Fitness ; Saks Fifth Avenue

1104-557: Is considered one of the greatest ice hockey players of his era, and the first great American hockey player. He was one of the first nine players inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame upon its founding in 1945, the first American so honored, and was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame as one of its charter members in 1973. Baker was posthumously awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy by

1173-658: Is likely higher. Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania Bala Cynwyd ( / ˌ b æ l ə ˈ k ɪ n w ʊ d / BAL -ə KIN -wuud ) is a community and census-designated place in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania , United States. It is located on the Philadelphia Main Line in Southeastern Pennsylvania and borders the western edge of Philadelphia at U.S. Route 1 (City Avenue). The present-day community

1242-799: Is located a block to the east. From 1946 to 1960, the National Football League had its headquarters located in Bala Cynwyd. The Lower Merion Academy-Cynwyd Elementary School-Bala Cynwyd Junior High School Complex and West Laurel Hill Cemetery are listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Bala Cynwyd is served by the Lower Merion School District with its headquarters in Ardmore . Public school children of area residents attend

1311-475: 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. Baker was widely regarded by his contemporaries as one of the best athletes of his time and is considered one of the best early American hockey players. When

1380-502: The Hockey Hall of Fame was founded in 1945, Baker was named one of the first nine inductees, the only American among them. In 1973, he became one of the initial inductees in the United States Hockey Hall of Fame . He was also inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1975, and is the only person to be in both the hockey and college football halls of fame. F. Scott Fitzgerald idolized Baker and based Allenby,

1449-678: The National Hockey League and USA Hockey in 1987 for his contributions to hockey in the United States. In 1975, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and is the only person in both the College Football and Hockey Halls of Fame. Baker was also inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame in 2010. His popularity was such that, after he enlisted in the military, so many of his fellow Princeton athletes followed his lead that

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1518-528: The National Register of Historic Places , was settled shortly after William Penn 's landing in Pennsylvania in 1682 and contains the village's oldest commercial buildings, some dating to the earliest years of the 19th century. Bala Avenue is an extension of this original town center and comprises a specialized commercial district of its own more than a century old; it has long been known for its children's clothing stores, women's dress and consignment shops,

1587-469: The Panic of 1907 and could only afford to send one of his sons to college. Thornton agreed to let his talented younger brother continue his education, a sacrifice that Hobey Baker never forgot. Although an above-average student, Baker stayed an extra year at St. Paul's in 1909 to allow his father another year to save money. By the time Baker left St. Paul's, his sporting achievements had helped make him one of

1656-594: 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

1725-755: The Welsh Tract of Pennsylvania and was settled in the 1680s by Welsh Quakers , who named it after the town of Bala and the village of Cynwyd in Wales. A mixed residential community made up predominantly of single-family detached homes, it extends west of the Philadelphia city limits represented by City Avenue from Old Lancaster Road at 54th Street west to Meeting House Lane and then along Manayunk and Conshohocken State Roads north to Mary Watersford Road, then east along Belmont Avenue back to City. This large residential district contains some of Lower Merion's oldest and finest stone mansions, built mainly from 1880 through

1794-488: The armistice which ended the war, Baker's engagement with Scott was broken off; Scott then began a relationship with an American diplomat in Paris, Philander Cable. Missing his fiancée and the excitement of the war, he felt directionless; he dreaded going back to work in an office and considered himself a sportsman rather than a businessman. Though he was scheduled to return to the United States in December, Baker requested and

1863-573: The eating clubs that were at the center of social life at the university. Baker was named captain of the football team in 1913, his senior year. Princeton finished with a record of five wins, two losses, and one tie. Over his three-year football career with the Tigers, Baker scored 180 points, a school record that lasted until 1964 when Cosmo Iacavazzi broke it in the final quarter of his last college game. Baker caught over 900 punts in his career, and averaged 300 yards in punt returns per season. He

1932-415: The 13th Squadron recorded its first confirmed kill during a flight led by Baker; he and two other men shot down a German plane. In August, Baker and another pilot were promoted and given command of their own squadron; Baker was given charge of the 141st Aero Squadron , composed of 26 pilots and 180 enlisted men stationed behind the front line, where they had to wait for equipment to arrive before leaving for

2001-436: The 1911 season with a record of eight wins and two ties in ten games and won the national championship. During a game against Yale on November 18, 1911, Baker set a school record that still stands when he had 13 punt returns for 63 yards. During the 1911 football season Baker scored 92 points, a school record that lasted until 1974. Princeton finished the 1912 season with seven wins, one loss, and one tie in nine games. As

2070-545: The 1920s and located in the sycamore-lined district between Montgomery Avenue and Levering Mill Road, as well as split level tract houses built east of Manayunk Road just after World War II . The oldest commercial district and the original center of Bala Cynwyd straddles the bridge over the old Pennsylvania Railroad tracks, originally belonging to the Columbia Railroad and now part of SEPTA 's Cynwyd Line, along Montgomery Avenue at Bala Avenue. This district, long on

2139-661: The Bala Theater and a number of small restaurants. The remainder of Bala Cynwyd's original commercial district extends south along Montgomery Avenue as part of the Bala Cynwyd-Merion Commercial District and is coextensive with the commercial center of Merion , with its popular delicatessens and restaurants. The village is home to houses of worship of many religions . The oldest of these is Saint John's Episcopal Church on Levering Mill Road, founded in 1863. Saint Matthias Catholic Church

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2208-628: The Cynwyd Elementary School on Levering Mill Road, Belmont Hills Elementary School on Madison Avenue, and Bala Cynwyd Middle School on North Bryn Mawr Avenue. High school students living in Bala Cynwyd may choose between Lower Merion High School in Ardmore and Harriton High School in Rosemont . Another school in Bala Cynwyd is Kohelet Yeshiva High School on Old Lancaster Road. Located on Montgomery Avenue at Bryn Mawr Avenue

2277-501: The French. Success in the courses was dependent on how quickly the pilots learned French, the predominant language of instruction. Though he managed to complete all the courses easily, a lack of qualified teachers meant that Baker was first sent to a school in England for more training and then back to France to teach Americans what he had learned in England, in an attempt to create pilots as quickly as possible. This discouraged Baker, who

2346-537: The Princeton hockey team did not have its own ice rink, most of their home games were played in New York City at the St. Nicholas Rink , one of the few facilities in the world with artificial ice at the time. The team finished the 1911–12 hockey season with a record of eight wins and two losses in ten games. During his sophomore year, Baker was invited to join the Ivy Club , the oldest and most prestigious of

2415-837: The St. Nicholas Club, Baker was offered a contract by the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey Association . He turned down an offer of $ 20,000 to play three seasons as social conventions prohibited a person of his standing from playing sports for money. On March 24, 1917, Baker played his last hockey game at the Winter Garden at Exposition Hall in Pittsburgh . The game pitted an amateur all-star team from Philadelphia, led by Baker, against an all-star team from Pittsburgh's amateur leagues. The Philadelphia team defeated Pittsburgh in overtime by

2484-454: The age of eleven, Baker and his twelve-year-old brother Thornton were sent to St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire . Baker's parents divorced in 1907 and both remarried. While at St. Paul's, Baker was introduced to ice hockey . Malcolm Gordon , one of the first people to help develop hockey in the United States, was the coach of the school team and recognized Baker's skill. Baker

2553-564: The aircraft. In heavy rain, Baker took off and began to level off at 600 feet. A quarter of a mile into the flight, the engine failed. The plane was generally easy to crash-land if necessary, something he had done previously at the cost of a few broken ribs. Instead of running straight away to land he started to turn back toward the field. The wing slipped, the machine crashed and he was killed. —Eyewitness account of Baker's death by Cpt. Edwin H. Cooper, 26th Division Photographic Officer, United States Signal Corps A few hundred yards from

2622-522: The airfield, his plane crashed nose first into the ground. He was quickly freed from the aircraft by his men, but died in an ambulance minutes later; his orders to return home were found in his jacket pocket. Baker was buried in a small military cemetery near Toul; in 1921, his mother had his remains moved to her family plot in West Laurel Hill Cemetery , Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Though newspapers reported that Baker had died as

2691-513: The ancient Cynwyd Academy building, adjacent to Bala Cynwyd Middle School on Bryn Mawr Avenue in Cynwyd. Among the claimants for First Boy Scout Troop in the United States is Troop 1 in Bala Cynwyd. Bala Cynwyd has long been home to most of the broadcasting outlets in the Philadelphia region. In 1952, CBS television station WCAU-TV built its headquarters at the corner of City Avenue and Monument Road. Now an NBC owned-and-operated station ,

2760-402: The city. Pyne introduced Baker to both polo and auto racing , sports he quickly mastered. Baker remained well known from his time at Princeton; marquees at his home arena, which was shared with Princeton, often said "Hobey Baker Plays Tonight". This made Baker uncomfortable and he eventually asked the building manager to take down the sign. Preferring a life out of the public eye, he once told

2829-608: The coast of Manhattan, a privately funded program to train civilians to pass the Reserve Military Aviator flying test and receive commissions in the Signal Officers Reserve Corps . He often went to the island late in the afternoon after he finished work for the day. Baker found the same enjoyment in flying that he had in sports, but with a more serious aspect. Prior to the annual Yale–Princeton football game on November 18, 1916, Baker in

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2898-575: The financial disparity between them. After his first confirmed kill on May 21, 1918, the French government awarded him the Croix de Guerre . During the summer, Baker was transferred to the 13th Aero Squadron after its commander, Captain Charles Biddle , requested that he join the squadron as a flight commander. Though reluctant to leave the 103rd, Baker felt that Biddle would not have requested him without confidence in his abilities. On July 20,

2967-408: The first person to reach a football game by air. The entry of the United States into World War I excited Baker, as it finally gave him a purpose in life and allowed him to make good use of his pilot training. He left the United States for Europe in the summer of 1917, among the first group of Americans to do so. Though eager to join the front immediately, Baker was told that he had to be certified by

3036-462: The first time in his career on May 21, but due to a complicated system of confirming kills, he was not given credit for it. In a letter home describing the battle, Baker said it was the "biggest thrill I ever had in my life", and compared it to the feeling after a big sports game. Throughout the spring of 1918 Baker continued to lead planes over the front, and continued to see Scott, although he began to have reservations over their future together due to

3105-426: The freshman baseball team before he gave up that sport to focus on hockey and football. In one of his first games with the football team , he helped defeat rival Yale when he faked a drop-kick field goal and instead ran the ball for a touchdown . Easily recognizable on the field because he wore no helmet, Baker was referred to as "the blond Adonis of the gridiron" by Philadelphia sportswriters. Princeton finished

3174-467: The front. Various delays in the arrival of planes and equipment meant that Baker's squadron was unable to participate in the final major offensives of the war. In September, Baker became engaged to Scott. He asked Pyne to sell a bond to pay for an engagement ring, and the newspapers in the United States carried headlines that announced the engagement. Early in October, Baker was promoted again and given

3243-427: The living room. In 2024, ESPN's 30 for 30 podcast explored Baker's life, legacy, and possibly queer relationship with Percy R. Pyne II, in "Searching for Hobey Baker" (narrated by David Duchovny ). Amateur statistics from Total Hockey , Diamond 2002 , p. 616 ‡ Assists were not officially recorded as a statistic. The numbers here reflect only the assists that were credited to Baker. The actual total

3312-612: The main character is named Amory Blaine after Baker's middle name, and the minor character Allenby is Baker himself. Mark Goodman's 1985 novel Hurrah for the Next Man Who Dies is a fictionalized account of Baker's life. Baker's honors included a citation on March 27, 1919, by General John Pershing , commander of the American Expeditionary Forces , for exceptional bravery on May 21, 1918, when he brought down his first plane. The Hobey Baker Award

3381-499: The old guard would be furious if they thought I was trying to prove it". You who seemed winged, even as a lad, With that swift look of those who know the sky, It was no blundering fate that stooped and bade You break your wings, and fall to earth and die, I think some day you may have flown too high, So that immortals saw you and were glad, Watching the beauty of your spirits flame, Until they loved and called you, and you came. —Inscription on Baker's tombstone. Baker

3450-403: The rank of captain. The planes and equipment arrived for his squadron soon after. Baker had the planes painted in Princeton's black and orange and adopted a tiger for the squadron insignia. He recorded two more kills on October 28 and November 5, the last of his career (despite reports at the time of his death, Baker was not an ace , as that required five confirmed kills). Around the time of

3519-753: The residential character of the neighborhood and promote civic welfare and community spirit. It sponsors an annual Independence Day celebration on July 4 which begins in front of the Union Fire Association on Montgomery Avenue and ends at the Bala Cynwyd Playground . The parade features neighborhood children riding decorated bicycles , marchers in costumes , clowns , floats , fire trucks , police , and public officials. The Lower Merion Historical Society recently relocated its headquarters from Ashbridge House in Rosemont to

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3588-527: The school had to cancel its hockey team for the 1917–18 season; all five starting players enlisted in the armed forces. Of the eleven players on the team the previous season, nine enlisted shortly after Baker. Baker was also the inspiration for literary works. In 1913 F. Scott Fitzgerald enrolled at Princeton as a freshman, when Baker was a senior. Though he only spoke to Baker once during their time at Princeton, Fitzgerald idolized him. His first novel, This Side of Paradise , has several references to Baker:

3657-533: The school's most popular students. In 1910, Baker enrolled at Princeton University as a member of the Class of 1914. Along with six other classmates from St. Paul's, he lived in a house at 82 Nassau Street in Princeton . He joined the school's hockey, football, and baseball teams in his freshman year. The university's rules stated that students could only play two varsity sports , so Baker played outfield for

3726-411: The six-branch Lower Merion Library System , occupies a modern facility on Old Lancaster Road. It is home to more than 221,000 items and features up-to-date computer facilities and a dedicated children's library on the second floor. The system as a whole, with its central library located at Bryn Mawr's Ludington Memorial Library on South Bryn Mawr Avenue, is home to more than 1.4 million items and stands in

3795-468: The sport." When Princeton opened their hockey arena in 1921, it was named the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink . At St. Paul's, hockey players compete for an award known as "Hobey's Stick". Inside the bar of the Nassau Inn in Princeton is a photo of Baker flanked by two other famous Princeton athletes, Bill Bradley and Dick Kazmaier . The Ivy Club, of which Baker was a member, has had a painting of him in

3864-574: The station was located there until 2018, when the studios moved to the Comcast Technology Center in Center City Philadelphia , though some operations remain at the former studios. A decade later, ABC affiliate WFIL-TV moved to a new studio directly across the street from WCAU on City Avenue, just inside the Philadelphia city limits. The station, now ABC O&O WPVI-TV , is still based there today. Bala Cynwyd

3933-979: The team was represented by several notable American tennis players, among them William Larned , Henry Slocum , Malcolm Chace and Robert Wrenn . Canadian middle-distance runner and Olympic gold medalist George Orton played for the Quaker City Hockey Club in 1900–01, as did 1906 US Open tennis champion William Clothier . A great bulk of the players in the AAHL came from different Ivy League schools such as Harvard , Princeton , Columbia and Yale . Among them were United States Senator Leverett Saltonstall and prominent businessman Harold Stanley . The league also had many Canadian players on its teams, among them Tom "Attie" Howard , George Orton , Bob Wall, Bill Dobby, Artie Liffiton and Riley Castleman. Source : Hobey Baker Hobart Amory Hare " Hobey " Baker (January 15, 1892 – December 21, 1918)

4002-589: Was able to score in the low 40s on the school's nine-hole course; after using roller skates for the first time, he was able to perform one-legged stunts within minutes. He once entered St. Paul's annual cross-country race for fun and won, defeating some of the school's most proficient runners. At the age of fifteen he was named the school's best athlete for his skill in hockey, football, baseball, tennis, swimming, and track. Most of his former classmates recalled their time at St. Paul's with Baker solely by his athletic achievements. Alfred Baker lost much of his savings in

4071-477: 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. 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

4140-684: Was at Ottawa's Dey's Arena against the University of Ottawa on February 28, 1914, for the Intercollegiate Hockey Championship of America. Ottawa defeated Princeton by a 3–2 score. Princeton won the 1914 national championship after they finished with a record of ten wins and three losses. Statistics were not kept of his time at Princeton, but biographer Emil Salvini estimated Baker to have scored over 120 goals and 100 assists in three years, an average of three goals and three assists per game. As well as skill, Baker

4209-495: Was awarded a varsity letter in football five times; combined with the three letters he earned in hockey, his total was the most that could be earned at Princeton at the time. It was during the 1913–14 hockey season, Baker's senior year, that his most famous game with Princeton took place. On January 24, they played Harvard at the Boston Arena . Initially the favorite to win, Princeton had a setback as one of its star players

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4278-748: Was eager to get into the front lines and fight. Owing to a lack of aircraft supplies, Baker was stuck in Paris, and doubted he would ever get to the front. While in Paris, he was happy to continue seeing Scott, who had enlisted as a nurse and worked at a hospital in France. Baker was finally sent to the front in April and assigned to the 103d Aero Squadron , formed from former members of the Lafayette Escadrille and Lafayette Flying Corps in January 1918. Baker helped to bring down an enemy plane for

4347-548: Was established in 1981 and is awarded annually to the best player in NCAA hockey. The Hobey Baker Legends of College Hockey Award was also created that year and is given to the "all-time great contributors to the game of college hockey" each year. Since 1950, Princeton has awarded the Hobey Baker Trophy to the "freshman hockey player who, among his classmates, in play, sportsmanship and influence has contributed most to

4416-452: Was injured and unable to play, and another was suspended. Baker was repeatedly called offside , as he was too fast for the two replacement Princeton players (players were required to stay behind the puck-carrier at the time). In the "sudden death" overtime, after sixty minutes of play, Baker was not even breathing heavily. The game was the longest college hockey game played up to that point. The final hockey game of Baker's Princeton career

4485-529: Was known by his classmates to be an exceptionally fast and agile skater. He spent nights skating on frozen ponds to improve his ability to move with the puck while not looking down . Baker was named to the school's varsity team at the age of fourteen and helped St. Paul's defeat some of the best prep schools and universities in the United States. In every sport he attempted, Baker soon demonstrated proficiency. His cousin said that Baker swam through water "like some sort of engine". After his first attempt at golf he

4554-439: Was known for his sportsmanship. In a hockey game against Harvard on January 22, 1913, Baker recorded the only penalty of his collegiate career, for slashing ; Princeton lost the game 5–4 in overtime. He visited the dressing rooms of opponents after every game to shake hands with each player. In early 1914, Baker graduated from Princeton, majoring in history, politics, and economics, and finished with above-average grades. He

4623-488: Was named the school's best football player, hockey player, and all-round athlete and the man who had done the most for Princeton. The football team had posted a record of twenty wins, three losses, and four ties in Baker's three seasons as a member; the hockey team fared equally well with a record of twenty wins and seven losses. By the end of his football career at Princeton, he had two notable achievements: he had never fumbled

4692-473: Was originally two separate towns, Bala and Cynwyd, but was united as a singular community largely because the U.S. Post Office , the Bala Cynwyd branch, served both towns using ZIP Code 19004. The combining of the communities gives a total population of 9,285 as of the 2020 census . The community was long known as hyphenated Bala-Cynwyd. Bala and Cynwyd are currently served by separate stations on SEPTA 's Cynwyd Line of Regional Rail . Bala Cynwyd lies in

4761-601: Was refused an extension of his time in France. On December 21, 1918, Baker received orders to return to the United States. Reluctant to leave France and return to his life in America, he decided to take a final flight at his squadron's airfield in Toul . As he went for his own plane, the mechanic brought out a recently repaired one instead, in need of a test flight. The other pilots remonstrated with Baker, but he maintained that as commanding officer he could not let anyone else test

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