The Washington herald., 1918-07-23
DEAD
AT CARLISLE
Famous Institute Of Foot
ball Will Be Convert
ed Into Hospital.
BY ROBERT W. MAXWELL.

The news of the passing of Carlisle
Indian School into the happy hunt
ing grounds has been received with
pangs Of regret among the followers
of intercollegiate sports in Philadel-
phia. The famous institution, which
for the last forty years has been
used to elevate the noble Red Man
and show him the advantages of
higher education. has been turned
over to the War Department and in
the future will house convalescent
soldiers. II will be known as base
hospital and II never may be used
again as a school The 700 students
will be sent to other institutions
throughout the West.
Carlisle was the Yale, Harvard and
Princeton among the government
schools. The athletic teams stood
head and shoulders over the others
and the football elevens ranked with
the best in the country. We still
remember the annual visits to Frank
lip Field. the wonderfully coached
teams, the trainload of uniformed
students accompanied by the demure
Indian maidens, the profusion of gay
ly-colored raiment. the school band
lin fact, everything that made the
day a gala occasion. Old Penn al
ways had a hard game with the
Aborigines, although she won the ma
jority of the contests. The first game
was played in 1895, when the Red
and Blue triumphed by the score of
36 too. Carlisle lost again in 1886.
but in 1897 scored its first victory
by the count of % to 10. Twenty-one
games have been played between the
teams, Penn winning eleven. Carlisle
eight, and two were tied.
Other big universities found II diff
cult to subdue the Redskins. Harvard,
Princeton. Dartmouth. Chicago, Min
nesota, Northwestern and Cornell
often emerging with the losers end
of the score. The Indians knew how
to play football. they thrived on the
field of battle and the work was a
pleasure to them. All teams looked
alike, and after a few years Of sue
cess they believed they were invinci-
Bile. At that. no small college eleven
ever equaled the record of Carlisle
and no minor eleven ever met such
hard opponents.
Peering into Carlisle's athletic hall
of fame we find the names of many
wonderful players. There were Bemis
and Hawley Pearce, the famous, line
men; wheelock, Lone Wolf. 'Pete
Hauser, his brother Emil, who also
was known as Wauseka, other line
men: Metoxin. johnson, Hudson and
Mount Pleasant. famous quarterbacks;
Rodgers and Exendine, two of the
greatest ends that ever played, and
Cayou and the Incompatible Jim
Thorpe. These are the men who made
athletic history for Carlisle and stor-
les Of their powers will be handed
down for years to come.
There Is another name closely con-
nected with the history of Carlisle.
a name which always will command
respect and admiration whenever foot
ball is mentioned. 1t is Glenn s. War
ner, the greatest football coach of all
time, the man who placed the Indian
School on the gridiron map and made
the Black and Gold eleven one to be
feared by all. He took charge of the
team In 1893 and defeated Penn by the
score Of 16 to 5. Yale and Harvard
refused to schedule a game. but Co
Iumbia, after beating Yale, was played
! in New York and defeated by the
score of IS to O. After that the
| Indians were sought for all over the
countryfi for they we're good draw
ing cards, and the fms liked to see
them play.