F. T. Parks
Frank Thomas Parks was an American college football, college basketball, and college baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the First District Agricultural and Mechanical College of Jonesboro, Arkansas—now known as Arkansas State University—from 1911 to 1912, compiling a record of 4–2. Parks was also the head basketball coach at First District A&M from 1911 to 1913 and the school's head baseball coach from 1912 to 1913. During his team with First District A&M, he also served as the school's athletic director.
Parks played football, basketball, baseball, and ran track for Kansas State Agricultural College—now known as Kansas State University.
Parks also taught engineering with First District A&M. After two-and-a-half years with the Aggies, Parks left coaching and returned to Kansas. He later worked in the oil industry with the Empire Gas and Fuel Company in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Parks married Minnie L. Forceman in 1911, and together they had two children. He died on October 29, 1959 of a heart attack in Denver.