Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-09
CARLISLE INDIANS BOOSTED FOOTBALL
Restoring of Game at Indian School F Met With Favor.

Whe nthe Department Of the 1n- terior in Washington issued the order | restoring football as sport to the | Carlisle Indian School it made move | which has won favor with all devorees | of this gripping sport.
 Last year. when the Indian team | was torn asunder by internal dissen- | sion an dopen rebellion, the Indian | Commission ordered the abolition of 1 football. Teh aborigines nave 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 l contempt for physical injury which is traditional of their race Nor were trickery and cunning lacking. Under the tutelage of Glenn War l ner, who now is in charge of the University of Pittsburgh football team, Carlisle School rose to it's great est heights on the gridiron. Until re- gently, when the majority of our | secondary schools.
 Played College Teams. But only college teams were played against by the Indians, and it was ruled that any man who had played for four years at Carlisle was inelig- | ible to represent anw of the colleges It is true, however that most of the Indian players were older than the lisle represented on the gridiron. The white boys at the prep. schools. I It may be that the Indian authorities had a stronger motive in restoring football than the desire to see Car sport appealed to the boys. It was hard and rough; it possessed that eIe- ment of physical encounter that they i loved It is characteristic of the | Indian to glory in physical prowess. It is more tha characteristics; it is ] part of their very being, in bred 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 inculcated i nevery Indian boy. The warriors stalked through the old villages show ing their strings of scalps The man with the greatest number of horses was rated the richest. At Carlisle the heroes of the gridiron were the be- roes of the school.
 The desire to make the football team attracted @ the boys to the school. l While there they studied English aud | learned the way of the white man and ot live his life. Granting this be true, | 1t was wise move to restore the at traction to the school. The uplift and | advancement of the Indian race is the chief object of the Indian Department, and if football at Carlisle can be used to assist in this uplift, then the com- missioners did well to restore it.
 Every College Boasts Heroes.
 Every college boasts it's heroes of the gridiron, and none more than Car isle. The fame of Thaddeus Red 1 Water, Metxen, Bemus, Jerry and
 Hawley Pierce, those mighty brothers of days long gone; Wauseka, Pete Hauser, Frank Hudson, the wizard of the drop kick; Seneca, All-America
 halfback of '98; Gardner and his mate fTyn nf he the history of football, will live while Carlisle Indian School endures. There
 is no heart under a copper skin that will not beat high when the praise of Chariey Dillon, who tricked Harvard
 by slipping the ball under his jersey and scoring touchdown is sung Nor will men of the stamp of Frank Mount Pleasant Dr. William Johnson, Mike
 Balenti, Steam Roller Powell, Joe ] Guyon and his brother Charley Lone
 Star Arcasa, BergIe, Newashe, Gus
 Welch and host of others ever die in the tradition of the school Who is there who will dispute the statement that greater football play CT than Jim Thorpe never trod a grid iron? The mighty Sac and Fox war rior might well have won his place and
 even greater fame had he attended a
 college of first rank. Picture Jim play
 ing with men of the stomp of Wendell. of Eddie Mahan, of Ted Coy. Ina zine
 the feeling of opposing linemen who realized that stopping a twelye-inch
 shell would be child's play in compari-
 son to dragging down these line
 smashing behemoths The Indians
 nave beaten Harvard, Pennsylvania, Columbia, in the old days, and other
 big teams, but they never established
 tnelr supremacy beyond dispute
 through whole season
 Yet Indian teams have always been
 watched with interest, for they could
 erel1ed upon to do something entirely
 unexpected. The story will never die
 Of how Charley Dillon. the halfback. re-
 cetved the kickoff in the Harvard game
 of 1903, and, tucking the leather finder
 his jersey in back, walked IeisureIv ! past the Harvard tacklers until clear and then, with whoop, raced on to the goal line, travelling 1O5 yeards for a
 touchdown. It was this stunt which led to the framing of the rule that the ball could not be hidden under the Jersey or other articles of wearing apparel. It
 was an Indian idea to sew leather
 patches the size and color of the ball on the jerseys and start men running in all directions to the confusion of . their opponents. This idea was frown- . ed upon.
 It was Carlisle, or rather, Warner, that first developed the forward pass ! ot its fullest extent if that dangerous but spectacular play has been so de- . veloped. The open play of the Indians , struck terror to their opponents, but it
 was not so much that they were more
 adept, but that they offered greater protection to the men receiving the , ball. Warner was first to send another l line man out with the ends to clear
 away the secondary defence, and then
 the back or end receiving the pass had
 a clear field. Later the other teams \ adopted this method ,ara the rules . committee finally put ban and a TO- yard penalty on taking out the de-
 fensive man before the pass was
 caught.
 Deception, combined with a powerful
 attack, in which every mans duties
 were carefully outlined by Warner and
 executed by the men, was the secret of
 the success of the Indians. Warner
 always worked on the principle that
 on touchdown calls for from the
 opponents if they hope to win. It was
 not so much that he discounted defen-