Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-18
WHY INDIANS
PLAY GREAT
HOW LITTLE CARLISLE MAULs
THE BIG FIVE
A Few Logical Reasons for the Defeat
of Such Schools as Harvard,
Pennsylvania and Min
nesota

How can a football, team of Indians,
picked from few hundred. manage to
successfully cope with teams selected
from tens and hundreds OF thousands?
ANY time crowd begins discussion
of the Carlisle redskins its 10 to that
some fellow will spring the question. And
it is rather strange, when you come to
think II over, isn't IL?
There are scores of colleges in this
country which have unlimited thousands
to draw their students from, and still
they have never turned out football
team that could even be looked upon seri-
ously by one of the big Five" Yer
these Indians down at Carlisle, with q
following so scarce to pic from that
every one of them is looked upon as a
curiosity can send a squad or the grid
iron that makes every big team in
America tremble.
The Indian is no more intelligent than
the paleface. and. Notwithstanding the
general impression to the contrary, he
is no better physically. SO there must
be reason for this rather remarkable
condition.
Here are few of the reasons set forth
by Bozeman Bulger:
The Indian loves football better than
any sport his race has ever known.
He plays football for pleasure whether
he expects to make the Carlisle varsity
or not.
Where the peleface colleges have fifty
men out for practice the Indian has one
hundred
The Indian is always in condition be-
cause he likes to be that way. Whether
he plays football or net he keeps himself
in good physical shape.
The Indian looks on football y, :
ter of serious moment and not as
oh n celebrate SnOnt off T.
enthusiasm.
When the coach tells an Indian player
to do anything he never brings life, limb
or impossibility into question. He does
it.
An Indian who cannot remember the
coach's instructions feels disgraced in
the eyes of the other students.
When an Indian goes to Carlisle his
first ambition is to be a member of the
varsity team His trbesmen expect i
of him from wherever he is sent
The Indian player never replies to his
coach, and even if he is not sure he never
asks question He does his best and
If corrected pays close attention and gets
it right next time
Coach Warner says the Carlisle Indians
are the easiest team to handle that he
has ever known. They never do a thing
wrong twice, he says. and above all they
realizes that he is not so strong as an
other he will net wait to be told to quit.
but will express his views to the coacsl
and advise the trial of another man.
The coaches say there is never any
trouble in getting an Indian - adhere TO
a training diet AS matter of fact he
prefers that ki~d of food. Rare steak.
eggs, potatoes and milk are furnish ed
them. and they want nothing else. They
like candy but care little for pastry
The only sacrifice they make is to give
up smoking. All of the aborigines like
tobacco, and prefer it in the shape Of
| cigarettes, which they roll themselves.
On every Indian reserva ton In America
from which these students are drawn the
football fever is rife. Old chiefs who
have never seen college seld their boys
away with the hopes Of having them be-
come stars of The gridiron. Many of these
old tribesmen cannot read English, but
have the "paleface" papers read to them
as long as football is a public topic. When
the season is over their interest in the
papers cease and they stop their sub
scriptions.
Therefore with football an ambition OF
life from boyhood, can you wonder why
these young redskins at Carlisle become
wonders on the gridiron?