Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-14
Carlisle Votes
To Discontinue
Gridiron Game

Carlisle has abolished football. This
news comes to the football fans like
the news of lost chord or a story
that Cleveland had baseball team.
1t is the surprise Of the athletic world.
No more will the trick plays OF the
Carlisle team be scattered. throughout
the length and breadth of the land,
and with Warner gone, the authorities
have decided to do away with the grid
iron game The many defeats suffer
ed this year is supposed to be the prin-
ciple reason for the decision made. ~~:
The decision to abolish football was
reached after conference among Sec
rotary Lane, Commissioner Sells and
Supt Lipps of the Indian school.
Their opinion was that football had
taken more time than educational fea-
lures and that until the Indian stu
dents learned that study was more
important than the energy expended
on the gridiron, football should not be
tolerated.
1t developed that of seventeen Car.
Isle Indians employed last year in one
of the automobile factories, thirteen
were on the team or had been on pre-
vious teams. All returned to school
during the football season at sacri-
fee of educational opportunity as well
as wages. .s~e.E
Always Drew Big Crowds.
The Indians always have been not.
ed for their cunning. Their speed
and trickery has made them one of
the most feared and respected. eleyens
which ever graced the chalk lined
field. 1t was because of their known
ability that thousands of football fans
turned out to see them in action wher.
ever they played.
The Indians tackled any sort of foe.
1t did not make an difference to them
whether it was Yale, Harvard, Prince
ton, the Army, Navy, Pennsylvania,
Chicago or any other team.
Football fans, those who always
have made it point to see the Red.
skins in action whenever possible, re
greet the action of Secretary Lane
Some of the greatest football aggre
cations ever developed at American
institutions have been turned out of
the government school. Go back to
the. days of Hudson, one of the great
est quarterbacks in the history Of foot
ball, who piloted the Indian eleven
when It met the University of Illi-
nois team at the old COLISEUM on Sixty
third street, just east of the Illinois
Central railroad tracks. In the late
S0's; Metoxen, the full back who also
was member of that team, which
defeated most of the leading elevens
in the East.
Trick Causes Change In Rule.
Skipping a few years, 1t only is q
matter of history to relate the cunning
of the Indian when redskin tucked
the oval under his jersey and ran for
a touchdown in a game with Har-
ward. The play aroused so much COM
ment that the rules committee pro-
hibited such tactics the following
year.
Another few years saw the coming
Of Mount Pleasant and Pete Houser,
two of the greatest warriors who ever
wore the yellow and black of the In.
dian school, The former was a quar-
ter back of the first water, while the
latter was full back and an accurate
place kicker. Then along came Jim
Thorpe, one of Americas greatest all
around athletes, who played half back.
Thorpe won honors in the Olympic
games at Stockholm, but he was strip.
ped of his laurels on grounds of pro-
When Thorpe had COM
pleted his years Of service to his
school the teams were not as power.
full as their predecessors. ]
Warner Coach Of Winners.
Glen Warner, present coach-of the
Pittsburg eleven, the man who devel.
oped the winning Indian elevens, Sc.
vered his. connection with the institu-
ton after the completion of last falls
schedule. Last year the team met
with several unexpected defeats, prob
ably the worst being administered by
Notre Dame at the White Sox ball
park. That there will not be any
gridiron game at Carlisle will be re-
GREETED by every follower of the sport.