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- Charles_A._Baird abstract "Charles A. Baird (January 17, 1870 – November 30, 1944) was an American football manager, university athletic director, and banker.He was the manager of the University of Michigan football team from 1893 to 1895 and the school's first athletic director from 1898 to 1909. During his time as Michigan's athletic director, he was responsible for the hiring of Coach Fielding H. Yost and the construction of Ferry Field, the largest college athletic grounds in the United States at that time. Michigan teams excelled in all fields of athletics during Baird's tenure at Michigan, including football and track. Michigan's track teams won six Western Conference team championships and 16 Olympic medals (including 7 gold medals) during Baird's eleven years as athletic director. Baird also presided over Michigan athletics for the school's first Western Conference football championship in 1898 and Yost's \"point-a-minute\" teams from 1901 to 1905. His business acumen has been credited with turning Michigan's athletic department into a major success and a model for other universities in the early 20th Century.Baird became embroiled in controversy in 1905 when Stanford University President David Starr Jordan published allegations that \"the firm of Yost & Baird, victory-makers,\" were engaged in \"professionalism\" at Michigan. Baird was also a central player in the 1907 withdrawal of the University of Michigan from the Western Conference in protest over strict regulations imposed by conference faculty, including a reduction in the football season to five games (reduced from 13 in 1905) and a fifty cent limit on ticket prices.Baird left his position as athletic director in 1909 and moved to Kansas City, Missouri where he became a successful banker and investor. In 1935, Baird donated the Charles Baird Carillon, the fourth heaviest carillon in the world, to the University of Michigan.".
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- Charles_A._Baird deathDate "1944-11-30".
- Charles_A._Baird deathPlace Kansas_City,_Missouri.
- Charles_A._Baird deathYear "1944".
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- Charles_A._Baird wikiPageWikiLinkText "Charles A. Baird".
- Charles_A._Baird wikiPageWikiLinkText "Charles Baird".
- Charles_A._Baird wikiPageWikiLinkText "hiatus from 1907 to 1916".
- Charles_A._Baird almaMater University_of_Michigan.
- Charles_A._Baird birthDate "1870-01-17".
- Charles_A._Baird birthPlace "Vanceburg, Kentucky, U.S.".
- Charles_A._Baird caption "Baird cropped from 1900 Michigan football team photograph".
- Charles_A._Baird citizenship "United States".
- Charles_A._Baird deathDate "1944-11-30".
- Charles_A._Baird deathPlace "Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.".
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- Charles_A._Baird knownFor "Donated Baird Carillon to University of Michigan, 1935".
- Charles_A._Baird knownFor "First athletic director at University of Michigan, 1898–1909".
- Charles_A._Baird name "Charles A. Baird".
- Charles_A._Baird occupation "Athletic director, banker".
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