Frank Culver (NFL)

{{Short description|American football player (1897–1969)}}

{{For|the Attorney Frank Culver who played for the Michigan Wolverines from 1917 to 1919|Frank Culver}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Frank Culver

| image =

| caption =

| number = 11, 5

| position = End, center

| birth_date = {{Birth_date|1897|4|24}}

| birth_place = Toledo, Ohio, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|1|13|1897|4|24}}

| death_place = Yonkers, New York, U.S.

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 11

| weight_lbs = 175

| high_school = Scott (Toledo, Ohio)

| college = Syracuse

| teams =

• Buffalo All-Americans (1923)
• Rochester Jeffersons (1924)
• Buffalo Bisons (1924)
• Canton Bulldogs (1925)

| pfr = CulvFr20

}}

Franklin Zham Culver (April 24, 1897 – January 13, 1969) was an American professional football player who played three seasons in the National Football League (NFL), with the Buffalo All-Americans, Rochester Jeffersons, Buffalo Bisons and the Canton Bulldogs. He played from the 1923 season through the 1925 season. Culver's Bisons teammate, Jim Ailinger called Culver "a pretty damn good center" in an interview before his death on March 27, 2001.{{Cite web |url=http://www.billsbackers.com/ailinger.htm |title=History of Pro Football in Buffalo |access-date=2009-04-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704053130/http://www.billsbackers.com/ailinger.htm |archive-date=2008-07-04 |url-status=dead }}

Prior to playing in the NFL, Culver played college football at Syracuse. In 1922 he was named the team's captain.{{Cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E01E3DA113EEE3ABC4F52DFB467838A639EDE|title = SYRACUSE ELECTS CAPTAIN.; Frank Culver to Lead 1922 Football Team for Orange|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 17 December 1921}} Culver was a three-time letterman, in 1920, 1921 and 1922.{{Cite web|url=http://www.suathletics.com/sports/2009/2/3/sidebar_431.aspx?path=Football|title = Syracuse University Football Letterwinners}}