GUIDING THE WHITE BRETHREN:
THE REMARKABLE RECORD OF CARLISLE’SALUMNI COACHES BY TOM B ENJ E Y
veloped public relations department put an unusual article on the press wire. Instead of announcing football lineups and celebrating the school’s remarkable string of victories, it praised Carlisle’s success in producing coaches for non-Indian schools. Said the release, in the ethnic language of
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the day, “The Indian has made another step forward in his amazing march of progress. The country is familiar with the athletic prowess of the redskin through his many achievements as a school star, but it is not generally known that Lo has passed beyond the stage of being athlet- ic material but is today in many fields of sport actually guiding and directing the energies of his white brethren.” (“Lo” or “Mr. Lo” was U.S. Cavalry slang for the American Indian, from the poetic line, “Lo, the Noble Indian.”) The widespread success of alumni in coach-
ing careers is an overlooked, and perhaps un- intended, product of the Carlisle Experiment. (The release listed 16 names, and my own re- search brings it up to 22. See sidebar, page 47.) But the influence of these outstanding men on their own players might have done as much to further the cause of the American Indian as anything else accomplished at Carlisle. This phenomenon was highlighted in May
by the long overdue induction of William H. “Lone Star” Dietz into the College Football Hall of Fame. While other Carlisle Indians were previously inducted as players, Dietz significantly was nominated as a coach. One of his main achievements was leading the Washington State football team to a Rose Bowl victory in 1916. But he is one in a notable list including the Olympian Frank Mt. Pleasant, Gus Welch, Albert Exendine, Bemus Pierce and more than a dozen others.
44 AMERICAN INDIAN FALL 2012 1915 Washington State team with cast of Tom Brown at Harvard. (Lone Star Dietz has cane.)
t the end of Glenn S. “Pop” Warner’s brilliant but clouded career as Carlisle Indian School athletic director, early in the 1914 season, his highly de-
Emil Hauser (Wauseka), James Johnson, Albert Exendine and Pop Warner.
Pullman, Wash., welcomes Lone Star Dietz’s victorious team after their 1916 Rose Bowl Victory.
PHOTO COURTESY OF WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERISTY LIBRARIES ARCHIVES
PHOTO COURTESY OF WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERISTY LIBRARIES ARCHIVES
PHOTO COURTESY CUMBERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, CARLISLE, PENN.
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