Frank Gates Allen

Frank Gates Allen (February 14, 1858 – August 30, 1940) was an American football player and businessman.

[1][2] After graduating from Michigan, Allen moved to Moline, Illinois, in 1881.

He organized the Moline-Milburn & Stoddard Co. in 1886 with brother-in-law George Arthur Stephens, but he left the company two years later to study law.

[4][5][6] His daughter, Marjorie Allen Seiffert, was a nationally-known poet.

[3] Allen died of heart disease at his daughter's home in Moline in August 1940.