It's time for some Tiger trivia.

Who holds Ouachita's longest-standing football school record? Who was the first player in program history to receive three first team all-conference selections? Who was the first Tiger running back to ever be named an All-American? If you answered Johnny Baker to each of these questions, then you'd be correct.

Originally from Aberdeen, Maryland, Baker made an immediate impact as freshman at Ouachita in the fall of 1969. He broke out with three touchdowns in a 42-0 victory over nationally ranked Austin College – the Tigers' largest win of the year. A few weeks later, Baker stepped up again with a go-ahead touchdown run in the second half of that year's Battle of the Ravine versus Henderson State. The Reddies came back to win 23-17, but Baker had made his arrival known. He never lost to HSU again.

The following year, Baker posted the best season by a running back in school history up to that point. He tallied 1,614 rushing yards – a Ouachita record at the time and still one of the top three single-season totals in program history. Baker's efforts played a pivotal role in the Tigers' run to a 1970 Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference title, with the sophomore earning First Team All-AIC honors at the season's end. Highlights included a 230-yard, four-touchdown performance against Mississippi College and a 289-yard outing versus Arkansas A&M (now Arkansas-Monticello).

In 1971, Baker made history again by becoming the first Ouachita running back to rush for more than 1,200 yards in a season twice (1,288). The feat would not be repeated until 2022, when TJ Cole rushed for 1,672 yards on the tails of a 1,530-yard campaign the year prior. Baker once again scored the go-ahead touchdown against Henderson State after having already hit paydirt once. This time, however, the Tigers held on to their advantage for a 21-14 victory. For the second year in a row, Baker found himself a First Team All-AIC selection.

Setting records continued to be the norm for Baker in his fourth and final season at Ouachita. In 1972's game against Arkansas-Monticello, he ran for 225 yards, passing College of the Ozarks' Fritz Ehren for the conference's career rushing yards record in the process. At year's end, Baker earned an unprecedented third consecutive First Team All-AIC selection and Second Team NAIA All-America nod.

Baker finished his career with 4,357 rushing yards and 32 rushing touchdowns, setting school records in both categories. Within a decade, his rushing touchdown record was broken by William Miller, whose total of 42 scores between 1975 and 1978 would not be surpassed for over four decades. Baker's rushing yards record, however, stands tall. In fact, no member of Ouachita's running back lineage – which features three All-Americans in the last decade alone – has reached the 4,000-yard mark since.

Baker joined the Ouachita Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006. Today, more than 50 years after his final game, he remains a standard-bearer for the Tigers' running back corps.