The Dover football team posted a combined 30–1 record the three seasons he played (1931–1933), including two wins over the Massillon Tigers, famously coached by Paul Brown.
[5] As a member of the baseball squad in 1932 and 1933, Kelker's unofficial stats included a .521 batting average with 12 doubles, 7 triples, 5 home runs and 22 stolen bases.
[7] During his college football career, the team went a combined 27–2–1, with victories over Cornell, West Virginia, Cincinnati, Bowling Green, Ohio, Toledo, and Akron.
In Big Four Conference league play, the team was a perfect 9–0, winning all three titles against John Carroll, Baldwin Wallace, and Case Tech.
[11] The Frank "Doc" Kelker Scholarship is given annually at Case Western Reserve University to an undergraduate to "remove the barriers between young scholars and their potential".