While at Brown, Farnum was teammates with Fritz Pollard, the only African American player on an Ivy League team during the 1915 football season.
With Farnum blocking for Pollard, Brown won its first six games in 1915, allowing only three points to be scored by opponents.
Physically he is the biggest man among the players, standing 6 feet, 2 inches and weighing 220 pounds.
Farnum was later employed as a research technician in the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. experimental laboratory.
[6] Farnum died at age 61 in a hospital in East Hartford, Connecticut after a short illness in 1957.