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}} Frank Parker Day (9 May 1881 at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia – 30 July 1950 at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia) was a Canadian athlete, academic and author. Since Day's father was a Methodist minister who moved to a new congregation every three years, Day spent his youth living throughout Nova Scotia, living in Wallace, Acadia Mines, Mahone Bay, Boylston, and Lockeport. ==Early life and education== When he was seventeen, Day attended Pictou Academy and from there went on to earn a BA, in 1903 from Mount Allison University . Day was a member of the varsity rugby football team while completing his undergraduate studies. On schools new Athletic Field Frank scored Mount Allison's first points in the intercollegiate Rugby football in 1900.〔http://www.mta.ca/threecheers/individualsday01.html〕 He later won a Rhodes Scholarship, studying at Oxford University in 1905. Day was an athlete, and won the Oxford-Cambridge Heavyweight Championship. Returning to Canada, he embarked on an academic career, teaching English at the University of New Brunswick, before being appointed president of Union College in Schenectady, New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Parker Day」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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