Frank Ballenger

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| name = Frank Ballenger

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|2|14}}

| birth_place = Cambridge, Ohio, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|6|14|1903|2|14}}

| death_place = Sun City Center, Florida, U.S.

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| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1936–1937

| coach_team2 = Adrian

| coach_years3 = 1939–?

| coach_team3 = Ball State (assistant)

| coach_sport4 = Basketball

| coach_years5 = 1936–1938

| coach_team5 = Adrian

| coach_years6 = 1939–?

| coach_team6 = Ball State (assistant)

| overall_record = 4–14 (football)
7–29 (basketball)

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| championships = Football
1 Michigan-Ontario (1936)

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Frank Edward Ballenger (February 14, 1903 – June 14, 1984) was an American football, basketball, and track coach. Ballenger was the head football coach at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan. He held that position for the 1936 and 1937 seasons. His coaching record at Adrian was 4–14.{{Cite web

|last=DeLassus

|first=David

|title=Adrian Coaching Records

|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse

|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iii/miaa/adrian/coaching_records.php

|accessdate=November 15, 2010

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121003213/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iii/miaa/adrian/coaching_records.php

|archivedate=November 21, 2010

}} He received his bachelor of arts at Muskingum University.{{cite book|title=Official Foot Ball Guide|author1=National Collegiate Athletic Association|author2=Camp, W.|date=1938|publisher=American Sports Publishing Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e0niAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=October 18, 2014}}{{cite book|title=Ohio State University Bulletin|author=Ohio State University|date=1935|issue=v. 40, no. 4|publisher=Ohio State University|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U8rOAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=October 18, 2014}} He was born in Cambridge, Ohio in on February 14, 1903.{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J2PL-4Z5|title=Person Details for Frank Ballenger, "United States Social Security Death Index" — FamilySearch.org|publisher=familysearch.org|accessdate=October 18, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X8L1-Y4V|title=Person Details for Frank Ballenger, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1997" — FamilySearch.org|publisher=familysearch.org|accessdate=October 18, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VVVF-X6W|title=Person Details for Frank E Ballenger, "Florida, Death Index, 1877-1998" — FamilySearch.org|publisher=familysearch.org|accessdate=October 18, 2014}}

Ballanger moved to Ball State Teachers College—now known as Ball State University—in 1939 and served there as an assistant football, basketball, and track coach and as an assistant professor of physical education. After serving in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, he returned to Ball State before joining the faculty at Kent State University, where he remained until his retirement. Ballanger died on June 14, 1984, in Sun City Center, Florida.{{cite news |author= |title=Frank Ballenger, Ex-Assistant Coach at Ball State |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22179487/the_star_press/ |newspaper=The Star Press |location=Muncie, Indiana |date=June 22, 1984 |page=6 |access-date=July 31, 2018 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}