| Frank Piekarski | |
| Birth Date: | 17 August 1879 |
| Birth Place: | Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Player Years1: | 1901–1904 |
| Player Team1: | Penn |
| Player Positions: | Guard |
| Coach Years1: | 1905–1907 |
| Coach Team1: | Washington & Jefferson |
| Coach Years2: | 1914 |
| Coach Team2: | Penn (line) |
| Overall Record: | 26–7 |
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Frank Anthony Piekarski (August 17, 1879 – August 15, 1951)[1] was an American football player and coach who later served as a judge in Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he played college football for the Penn Quakers as a guard from 1901 to 1904. Piekarski was a third-team selection to the 1903 College Football All-America Team and a consensus first-team pick on the 1904 College Football All-America Team. He was among the first Polish-Americans to gain recognition in college football.
Following his graduation from Penn, Piekarski served as the head football coach at Washington & Jefferson College from 1905 to 1907, leading the Red and Black to a record of 25–7 in three seasons.[2] In 1914 he returned to his alma mater, Penn, as an assistant football coach in charge of the linemen under head coach George H. Brooke.[3]
Piekarski was also a lawyer. In 1933, he became a judge in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.[4] Piekarski died in 1951 at Pittsburgh Hospital in Pittsburgh.[5] [6] In 2005, he was named to the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame.[7]