Football

The front of this postcard advertises a football game between Carlisle and Villanova University which was scheduled for September 24, 1910. There is a cartoon below the caption "This is What a Little Indian Girl Thinks the Indian-Villanova Football Game Will be Like." The image is attributed to a Martha Red Eagle, but no one…

The handwritten caption reads: Oct 5 1910. INDIANS VS. DICKINSON.

View of the football game between Dickinson College and the Carlisle Indian School at Biddle Field on October 5, 1910. Dickinson lost, 0 to 24.

The handwritten caption reads: Oct 5/10. INDIANS. VS DICKINSON.

View of the football game between Dickinson College and the Carlisle Indian School at Biddle Field on October 5, 1910. Dickinson lost, 0 to 24.

Portrait of Bruce Goesback standing in a field wearing a football uniform. 

Studio portrait of Elmer Busch wearing football uniform. 

Portrait of Elmer Busch in football uniform standing on an athletic field.

The handwritten note reads: Carlisle Indians 1911-1912.

The typed note on the reverse side reads: 1911 & 1912 Carlisle Indian Team.

BACK
ARCASA  R  HB ; WELSH   QB ; POWELL   FB ; THORPE   L  HB

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The caption reads: JAMES THORPE Retiring Captain of the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

Jim Thorpe holding a football in his football uniform.

Studio portrait of Joseph Bergie in football uniform. 

Portrait of Joseph Bergie in a football uniform standing in a field. 

The caption reads: JAMES THORPE

Jim Thorpe in his Carlisle Football uniform.

The captions read: CARLISLE INDIANS DEFEAT PENN ON FRANKLIN FIELD. 16-0

The sub-captions read: Captain Burd of the Indians, centre; Wheelock, of Carlisle, crashing through Penn's line; When the Indians scored. 

The handwritten note reads: Nov. 4, 1911.

An unposed photo of students playing football. 

Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "A Good Gain for the "Easterners" . . . But the Rivalry Goes On and On . . . Until 1918." 

The captions read: ATHLETICS, INDIAN FIELD, ON THE FIELD, BASE-BALL TEAM, TRACK TEAM, FOOT-BALL TEAM, GLENN S. WARNER CORNELL, '94 DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS

This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 5 (January 1912): 207.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: GOESBACK

This image was shared courtesy of Robert R. Rowe.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: GOESBACK

This image was shared courtesy of Robert R. Rowe.

Portrait of Elmer Busch wearing football uniform standing outside. 

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Cut of 1912 picture     Warner & Thorpe     Middle back row - standing.   Credit John Steckbeck "Fabulous Redman"    

Eleven male students, in football uniforms, posed on the football field. 

They are identified as the 1912 football team. Left to right, front row: Charles Williams, Pete Calac, Elmer Busch, Joe Bergie, William Garlow, Joe Guyon, and Roy Large; back row: Alex Arcasa, Stansill "Possom" Powell, Gus Welch, and Jim Thorpe. 

Four football players. identified in handwritten captions as, from left to right, as Pratt, Bracklin, Garlow, and Wallette. 

Portrait of Fred Broker wearing football uniform standing on an athletic field. 

Studio portrait of Fred Broker in football uniform.

Portrait of Peter Jordan wearing football uniform standing on an athletic field.

Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption: Samson Baird -- (L.G.) (Pawnee) 1910, '11, '12. (Cherokee)

The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging states: There were no students named Samson Baird…

An unposed photograph of students playing football. 

Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "Westerners" vs. "Easterners" A Yearly Event . . . .Lettered Athletes Barred." 

Portrait of Edward Bracklin in football uniform standing on an athletic field.