| Frank Faulkinberry | |
| Birth Date: | 27 November 1887 |
| Birth Place: | Fayetteville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Tennessee, U.S. |
| Player Sport1: | Football |
| Player Years2: | 1907–1910 |
| Player Team2: | Sewanee |
| Player Sport3: | Baseball |
| Player Years4: | 1911 |
| Player Team4: | Cleveland Counts |
| Player Years5: | 1912 |
| Player Team5: | Evansville Yankees |
| Player Years6: | 1913 |
| Player Team6: | Evansville River Rats |
| Player Positions: | Tackle (football) Catcher (baseball) |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1926–1932 |
| Coach Team2: | Middle Tennessee |
| Coach Sport3: | Basketball |
| Coach Years4: | 1926–1933 |
| Coach Team4: | Middle Tennessee |
| Coach Sport5: | Baseball |
| Coach Years6: | 1927–1932 |
| Coach Team6: | Middle Tennessee |
| Admin Years1: | 1926–1933 |
| Admin Team1: | Middle Tennessee |
| Overall Record: | 33–26–4 (college football) 45–38 (college basketball) |
| Championships: | AAU Women's Basketball (1929) |
| Awards: | 4× All-Southern (1907, 1908, 1909, 1910) Sewanee Athletics Hall of Fame |
Frank Albert Faulkinberry (November 27, 1887 – May 13, 1933) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He was the father of football coach Russ Faulkinberry.
Faulkinberry was born on November 27, 1887, in Lincoln County, Tennessee, to Christopher Columbus Faulkinberry and Sarah Ellen Caple.
Faulkinberry was a tackle on the Sewanee Tigers, thrice selected All-Southern.[1] His play was once called "a thing to marvel at."[2] He is a tackle on Sewanee's all-time second team. He was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team.[3] As a player, he stood some 6'4", 198 pounds. At Sewanee he was a member of Phi Delta Theta. Faulkinberry is a member of both the Sewanee Athletics Hall of Fame[4] and the Blue Raiders Hall of Fame, having coached for years the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders in both men and women's sports.[5] He was also a Latin professor. Faulkinberry Drive on the Middle Tennessee State campus is named in his honor. Faulkinberry was inducted into the Sewanee Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.[6]
For a few years he was a catcher in Minor League Baseball.[7]
Faulkinberry began his coaching career at Morgan School, Butler School, and Brandon Training School before moving to Franklin Country High School in Decherd, Tennessee, where he coached football and baseball. In May 1926, he was hired as the athletic director and head coach at Middle Tennessee State Teachers College—now known as Middle Tennessee State University—in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.[8]
Faulkinberry was found shot to death in the garage of his home on May 13, 1933. It was a suspected suicide.[9] [10]