Name Douglas Farmer Weight 182 lb (83 kg) | Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) Position(s) Quarterback | |
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Date of birth (1916-01-22)January 22, 1916 Date of death March 29, 1977(1977-03-29) (aged 61) | ||
Place of death New Haven, Connecticut | ||
Douglas Alexander Farmer (January 22, 1916 – March 29, 1977) was an American football player, medical doctor, and professor of medicine. He was a quarterback for the University of Michigan football team, attended Harvard Medical School, and later served as a professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and as chief of the department of surgery at the Yale – New Haven Hospital.
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University of Michigan
Farmer attended the University of Michigan and received his undergraduate degree there in 1938. He played college football at Michigan from 1935 to 1937 and was the starting quarterback of the 1937 Michigan Wolverines football team. While at Michigan, he was also a member and president of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, president of the senior class (Class of 1938), and a member of the Sphinx and Michigamua. A profile of farmer in the 1938 University of Michigan yearbook described Farmer as follows:
"Known by his fraternity brothers as 'Wife Beater,' by his friends as the 'Blooming Tory, and by practically ever woman on the campus as 'The Cutest Thing,' Doug Farmer is the man who called those forward passes on his own two-yard line last fall. ... Farmer is a very versatile guy. Intelligent, too. From something known as Hinsdale, Ill. 'Pretty Muscles' is still a cosmopolite. He walks down State Street just as if he were used to a big town."
Medical career
After graduating from Michigan, Farmer attended Harvard Medical School. He became a medical doctor and professor of medicine at Boston University and Yale University. He was also the chief of the department of surgery at the Yale – New Haven Hospital. He lived in Madison, Connecticut in his later years. He died in March 1977 at the Hospital of St. Raphael in New Haven, Connecticut.