Dave Baker Dave Baker ( born July 30 , 1937 in Coffeyville , Kansas , died September 4 , 2002 in Norman , Oklahoma ) was a defensive back in the NFL , playing for the San Francisco 49ers for three years . David Baker grew up in Bartlesville , OK , earning All - State honors in football , basketball and baseball . He enrolled at the University of Oklahoma in 1955 under legendary coach Bud Wilkinson . During his three years of eligibility ( freshman were not eligible in 1955 ) , the Sooners went 30 - 2 , were in the midst of their 47 game win streak ( still an NCAA record ) , and won the Big 7 conference title all three years . Players played both ways at the time , Baker playing defensive back , quarterback and running back . In 1959 he was drafted into the NFL as the fifth pick of the 1st round by the San Francisco 49ers . In the last 40 years of Sooner football ( 226 NFL draft picks ) , only Lee Roy Selmon , Billy Sims and Tony Casillas have been drafted higher . Baker played cornerback for the 49ers for three seasons ( 1959 – 1961 ) and still to this day holds the 49ers interception per season record , making 21 career interceptions , an average of seven per season . In his 1959 rookie season , he was selected to the NFL All - Pro team . Monte Clark , an All - Pro tackle with the Cleveland Browns and later an NFL head coach , spoke to the 1965 - 66 SNU basketball team and stated , “ In my fifteen - year NFL pro career , David Baker was the hardest hitting and best defensive back I have seen in the NFL . ” After serving two years in the U . S . Army , a return to the NFL to a signed contract seemed eminent , but a different path would be charted . Dr . Roy Cantrell , president of Southern Nazarene University , called , asking for a meeting to discuss with David the possibility of coming to SNU to begin intercollegiate athletics and be a professor of physical education . The position would include being the first athletic director and head basketball coach . Forsaking a lucrative NFL contract and all of its amenities , David and Edna Baker came to Bethany , signed an SNU contract worth $ 3 , 600 annually and began a dream . With no intercollegiate program , no scholarships and no budget , Coach Baker set out with a vision that SNU could become one of America ’ s finest small college athletic programs . At age 27 , with a background in the country ’ s finest collegiate football program ( OU ) and the NFL ( 49ers ) , Coach Baker believed that the greatest impact and athletic experience could happen where athletics in a " Christian atmosphere ” thrived . During Coach Baker ’ s tenure ( 1964 – 1974 ) a long list of significant accomplishment occurred : the first two men ’ s basketball seasons had winning marks ( men ’ s basketball was the only intercollegiate sport for four years ) ; the Benchwarmer Club was formed in 1968 ; the first scholarships awarded in 1969 ; the Redskin Revolution to change the course of sportsmanship in society occurred ( a new method of introducing players was introduced , which later was adopted by high school , college and pro teams across America ) ; sports were added to include women ’ s basketball , baseball , women ’ s volleyball , men ’ s and women ’ s tennis . On the basketball court , the innovation of the big man playing the point on the 3 - 2 zone defense was introduced in Broadhurst in 1971 , to be copied around America at every level . The Spokesman Bicycle Tour group was formed to give hundreds of high school and college age kids a life changing experience in pedaling across America . In 1970 , a goal was set to achieve a national title within a decade ( it actually occurred in a decade plus one , 1981 , in men ’ s basketball under Head Coach Dr . Loren Gresham ) . Coach Baker set an athletic program on course with the assurance that “ all things are possible to him who believes ” ( Mark 9 : 23 ) .