page_title: Frank Mount Pleasant
hierarchical_section_title: Frank Mount Pleasant
caption_attribution_description: English: F. P. Mt. Pleasant
context_page_description: Franklin Pierce Mount Pleasant Jr. was an American football player, track and field athlete, and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He played college football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and at Dickinson College, and graduated from Dickinson in 1910. He was the first Native American to graduate from Dickinson. He made the 1904 and 1908 US Olympic track teams, placing sixth in the triple jump and long jump at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
  Mount Pleasant served as the head football coach at Franklin & Marshall College, Indiana Normal School, now Indiana University of Pennsylvania, West Virginia Wesleyan College, and the University at Buffalo. He was also the head basketball coach at Franklin & Marshall for 1910–11 season and the school's head baseball coach in the spring of 1911. After World War I, in which he served as a first lieutenant, he settled in Buffalo, New York, where he worked at odd jobs for the rest of his life.
context_section_description: Franklin Pierce Mount Pleasant Jr. (June 13, 1884 – April 12, 1937) was an American football player, track and field athlete, and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He played college football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and at Dickinson College, and graduated from Dickinson in 1910. He was the first Native American to graduate from Dickinson. He made the 1904 and 1908 US Olympic track teams, placing sixth in the triple jump and long jump at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
  Mount Pleasant served as the head football coach at Franklin & Marshall College (1910), Indiana Normal School, now Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1911–1913), West Virginia Wesleyan College (1914), and the University at Buffalo (1915).  He was also the head basketball coach at Franklin & Marshall for 1910–11 season and the school's head baseball coach in the spring of 1911. After World War I, in which he served as a first lieutenant, he settled in Buffalo, New York, where he worked at odd jobs for the rest of his life.
caption: Mount Pleasant pictured in Instano 1912, Indiana Normal yearbook
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