New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-04
WAY DISBAND
The CARLISLE
FOOTBALL TEAM
DissensiOn in Eleven q
Factor in Bringing
Drastic Action.
tBy Telegraph to The Tribun. ]

Washington, Dec. 3.-Ihe Carlisle
Indian School has been represented
upon college football fields for the last
time. unless the officials of the De-
partment of the Interior, Commissioner
Sills, Of the Indian Service, and Super
intendent Lipps, Of the Carlisle School,
experience a change Of heart before
next fall.
Secretary Lane declared to-day that
tn best interests OF Carlisle and the
students attending the institution de-
manded that the sport be abando. ed.
lie said that affairs had come to pass
now where athletics in general, and
the gridiron sport IN particular, would
have to be subo-dinated TO the educa-
tional features of the scnool. lie also
said that while there was possibility
Of the game continuing, It would be I'M
possible for the team 10 make the
showing that other Carlisle teams have
In the past in intercollegiate competl-
ton This was due largely 70 the num-
Der of Indians who are being educated
in various industrial and panufactur-
ing establishments, he said.
IL developed that Of the seventeen
Indians employed in one Of the large
automobile factories, thirteen were on
the football eleven, or had been In
previous years. All returned to school
when the football season opened, and
in doing so sacrificed educational ad-
vGntages and the opportunity to make
money. Secretary Lane said that sew
IL Lal1
and that the average wage earned was
high.
The advisability of abolishing foot
ball at the Indian school, or regulating
IL so that the extensive trips OF the
team would be curtailed, has been under
consideration for some time. The ac-
ton was fastened by all open rupture
between Victor "Choc" Kelly, who was
appointed coach Of the football eleven
al the start of the season, and Gus
Welsh, the famous quarterback VINO
PLAYED on the 1915 eleven and who took
command of the team during the CLOS
ing weeks of the season.
Kelly failed TO gain the conide ce OF
the players. II was said that he lacked
the ability TO impart his knowledge OF
the game to the candidates, and 1t was
not long before the team was torn by
internal dissention. The players hnaily
il. sisted that Welsh take command OF
the squad, which he did. This made
conditions, al. ady bad, infinitely
worse. Charges were hurled back ana
forth, one accusing the other OF DIS
IovaItv 10 the school. Welsh had the
support Of the student body, but Kelly's
il,fue .ce extended beyond all that.
II Carlisle does not return TO the
field next season one of the most
picturesque elevens that ever took the
field will be lost. Under the tutelage Of
Glenn Warner the redskins won fame
throughout the country, and on one or
two occasions defeated Harvard. The
University Of Pennsylvania, once a
traditional rival; Dartmouth, Penn
State, the Army and Columbia have all
owned the cunning and skill OF Carlisle
teams
There are few football enthusiasts
who will forget the famous run OF
/ Charley Dillon, who raced l05 yards for
touchdown against Harvard from q
kickoff in the game on Soldiers tleld
in 1908. 1t was in this game that the
Indians tucked the ball under Dillon
Jersey, and he walked until clear OF all
tacklers, and then, with a savage whoop'
tore down the field for score. 1t was
this run which led the rules committee
10 frame the rule forbidding the hidden
ball trick.
4 So. too, the fame Of Frank Hudson,
a drop kicker who bowed not even 70
/ Brickley. of Harvard, in point Of skill,
7 will live. II was he who led the Indians
to victory over Columbia in 1899 on old
Manhattan Field by score or 10 TO u
In that game Seneca, who was chosen
ON Walter Camp's all-America team, ran
circles around the Blue and White ends
and tore the line to flinders. IL was
in that game that Bemus and Jerry
Pierce. the giant Thaddeus Red Water,
won fame.
Jim Thorpe, rated as one Of the
greatest football players in all time,
learned the game on the Carlisle cam
pus. Before Thorpe attained the pm
nacle of his fame, there we're Wauseka,
Hauser. tackle and fullback respective
ly; Jimmy Johnson, now prosperous
physician: Frank Mount Pleasant,
wonderful quarterback; Exendine and
Gardner, two of the best ends who ever
played the game; Lone Star, now coach
of the Washington State College team
Young Man Afraid of-a-Bear; Eagle
Feather. a young buck who reverted to
tyne and was killed In the Ute lnsur-
rection some ten years ago.
Joe and Charles Guyon, Emil Busch,
Steam Roller Powell, Jim Arcasa, Gus
Bracklin. the big Sioux, Mike Balenti,
Bergie. Hawk Feather and a host OF
others might be suggested whose names
awaken a food of memories OF the
brave old days when Car lisle was
feared and respected on the chalk-lined
field.