School management announced they had hired George Woodruff, a future hall-of- famer formerly of Penn, as “advisory and consulting coach.” He was assisted by Bemus Pierce, Hudson and, later in the season, for- mer Yale star Ralph Kinney. The 1905 Indi- ans went 10-4-0 but two of the losses were to early professional teams, the Massillon Tigers and Canton Bulldogs. 1906 brought a return to an all-Indian
coaching staff at Carlisle. Pierce was hired as head coach with Hudson as assistant. Shortly before the start of the season, The Arrow, the Carlisle student newspaper, announced, “The Carlisle Indian football management has decided to have its eleven directly coached by full-blooded redskins of intelligence. This was done largely because the Indian will work harder for an Indian coach than for the aver- age college expert trainer. Coach Glenn S. Warner is undoubtedly the only white man who has ever been able to hold fast the atten- tion of the redskinned footballist and teach him better things.” Warner spent a week before the season
teaching Pierce and Hudson to capitalize on the revolutionary new rules that, among other things, legalized the forward pass. The Indians went 9-3-0, earning Caspar Whit- ney’s fi fth place national ranking. The De- cember 21st
Arrow announced that Warner
would return to Carlisle as both head coach and athletic director. Although The Arrow praised Pierce and Hudson highly, it justifi ed the change by saying they weren’t available to fi ll year-round positions. After a Congressional investigation that
in part subjected Warner and the athletic program to hostile scrutiny, Carlisle’s enroll- ment criteria changed in 1914. A number of important players didn’t return, dooming the athletic program to mediocrity. Enroll- ment and curriculum changes reduced the number of athletic boys from which to build a football team, resulting in the team’s fi rst losing season since 1901. The biggest star not to return was “Indian Joe” Guyon who instead enrolled at Keewatin Academy, a prep school team coached by Peter Jordan, another former Carlisle player. When word got out that Warner was leav-
ing Carlisle, several former players applied for the job; the Indian Bureau hired former quarterback Victor “Choctaw” Kelley as head coach. Welch assisted him at fi rst but replaced him after Kelley was relieved of his responsibilities during the disastrous 1915 season. Carlisle played three more seasons, but with white coaches.
THE CARLISLE COACHES
Former football players from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School who went on to coaching careers, mainly in non-Indian schools. Based on a 1914 press release issued by Coach Glenn S. “Pop” Warner’s public relations department.
Albert Exendine
Assistant, Carlisle Indian School, Otterbein College, Anadarko High School, Georgetown University, Washing- ton State, Occidental, Northwest Oklahoma State Teachers College, Oklahoma State
Frank Mt. Pleasant William Gardner Gus Welch Bemus Pierce Ed Rogers Frank Cayou Wilson Charles
William H. “Lone Star” Dietz
Antonio Lubo Ed Smith
Joseph Schoulder William Garlow
Franklin & Marshall College, Indiana Normal School of Pennsylvania, West Virginia Wesleyan, University of Buffalo, Hutchinson Central High School
DuPont Manual High School, Otterbein College, The University of the South, Camp Custer, St. Edward’s College, Southwestern University
Conway Hall, Washington State, Randolph-Macon, assistant at Virginia University, Haskell, American University
Sherman Institute, Haskell Institute, Kenyon College, Carlisle Indian School
Carlisle Indian School, College of St. Thomas
Illinois freshmen, Wabash College, Washington University of St. Louis
Tomah Indian School
Assistant at Carlisle Indian School, Washington State, Mare Island Marines, Purdue, Louisiana Tech, Wyoming, assistant at Stanford, Haskell, Boston Redskins, assistant at Temple, Albright College
Assistant at Carlisle Indian School Chemawa Indian School Sherman Institute
Assistant at West Virginia Wesleyan (1914), head coach (1915)
Emil Hauser (Wauseka) Chemawa Indian School James Johnson
Assistant at Carlisle Indian School
Charles Guyon (Wahoo) Assistant at Georgia Tech, Eastern High School (Washington, D.C.)
Pete Hauser
Thomas St. Germain Fritz Hendricks Peter Jordan Joe Guyon
Assistant at Georgia Tech, Hominy Indians Villanova University Unspecifi ed
Keewatin Academy
Keewatin Academy, Union College, Clemson, St. Xavier High School
Victor “Choctaw” Kelley Northeastern Oklahoma Normal School, Carlisle Indian School
*Italics denote people or teams not included in 1914 press release SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 47 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 47
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