New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-22
Restoring Game at Indian
School Meets with Pop
ular Approval

When tn. Department OF the IN
terror in Washington issued the oruei
restoring football as sport 70 'he
Carlisle Indian School 1t made move
which has won favor with all devotees
Of this gripping sport.
Last year, when the Indian team
was torn ssunder by internal dissen-
sion and open rebellion, the Indian
Commission ordered the abolition OF
football. The aborigines have long
been one OF the most picturesque
teams on the gridiron, and football
mourned as it prepared for the loss
Stories rich in unusual incident
might be told Of the Carlisle teams.
They played the game as they lived
their lives; hard, rough and with that
contempt for physical injury which Is
traditional Of their race. Nor were
cunning and trickery lacking.
Under the tutelage Of Glenn War
ner. who now Is in charge OF the
University of Pittsburgh football
team, Carlisle School rose to its great
est heights on the gridiron. Until re-
Gently. when the curriculum was
broadened, Carlisle did not rank
scholastically with the majority Of our
secondary schools.
Played College Teams
Blu. only college teams were played
against by the Indians, and II was
ruled that any man who had played
for four years at Carlisle was ineligi-
BILE TO represent any OF the colleges
1t is true, however, that most OF tne
Indian players were older than the
white boys at the prep schools.
1t may be that the Indian authorities
had q stronger motive in restoring
football than the desire TO see Car
Isle represented on the gridiron. The
sport appealed TO the boys. IL was
hard and rough; it possessed that ele-
ment of physical encounter that they
loved. II is characteristic Of the
Indian to glory in physical prowess
1t is more than characteristic: IT Is
part of their very being, inbred by
centuries of life in the open. In the
old days the most successful warrior
was elected chief of the tribe. The
desire to stand forth was inculcsteo
in every Indian boy. The warrior:
stalked through the old villages show
ing their strings Of scalps. The mar
with the greatest number Of bunaiC
robes, with the greatest number Of
horses, was rated the richest. At Car
Isle the heroes OF the gridlron were
the heroes of the school. =,
The desire 70 make the football
team attracted the boys to the school
While there they studied English and
! learned the way Of the white man an6
to live his life. Granting this be true
| it was a wise move TO restore the at
traction to the school. The uplift anc
advancement of the Indian race is th'
| chief object of the Indian Department
and if football at Carlisle can be use'
to assist in this uplift, then the com
missioners did well to restore it.
Every College Boasts Heroes
Every college boasts it's heroes o
the gridiron, and none more than Car
Isle. The fame Of Thaddeus Re-
Water, Metoxen, Bemus, Jerry ant
Hawley Pierce, those mighty brother
OF uhyS lOuB koHcb euSShh' W
Hauser, Frank Hudson, the wizard o
the drop kick; Seneca, All-Americi
halfback of '98; Gardner and his mat
Exendine, two of the greatest ends Il
the history Of football, will live Will
Carlisle Indian School endures. Their
is no heart under copper skin tina
will not beat high when the praise o
Charley Dillon, who tricked Harvard
by slipping the ball under his jerse.
and scoring a touchdown, is sung. No
will men OF the stamp Of Frank Noun
Pleasant, DR.. William Johnson, Mix
Balenti, Steam Roller Powell, Jo
Guyon and his brother Charley, Lon
Star, Arcasa, Bergie. Newashe, Gu
Welch and host Of others ever die Il
the tradition of the school.
Who is there who will dispute tn
statement that a greater football play
err than Jim Thorpe never trod a grid
iron? The mighty Sac and Fox warrio
might well have won his place ard evei
greater fame had he attended a colleg
of first rank. Picture Jim playing witt
men of the stamp of Percy Wendell, o
Eddie Mahan, Of Ted Coy. Imagine tn
feeling OF opposing linemen who real
lied that stopping twelve-inch shell
would be child's play IN comparison L
dragging down these line-smashini
behemoths. The Indians have heater
Harvard, Pennsylvania. Columbia, IL
the old days, and other big teams, bu
they never established their supremac!