Eleven times, the Carlisle Indians have traveled to Boston to take on the Harvard Crimson. Eleven times, they’ve gone home defeated. Before the game, here’s what Coach Pop Warner told the Indians: Boys, today you face the sons and grandsons of the men who conquered your […]
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First all-Indian football team (1894) First non-college team to play against and beat the Ivy Leagues First to travel cross-country for a game (U. of California, 1899) First to launch the passing game and the game-changing “single wing” (1907) First to send scouts to spy on […]
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Both! On Oct. 26, 1907, the “single wing” offense was unleashed on U. Penn by Pop Warner and the Carlisle Indians. With the center able to snap the ball to three backs (TB, FB, QB), the options of run, handoff, or pass were endless. The birth […]
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Five years from now, Jim Thorpe will win gold in the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics. The King of Sweden will tell Jim, “You sir, are the greatest athlete in the world.” Jim will reply, “Thanks, King.” But on Oct. 19, 1907, the “greatest” […]
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No one masterminds trick plays like Pop Warner and the Carlisle Indians. If “There’s no rule against it.” (to quote Pop), they do it. In today’s game against Syracuse, Pop sprang the “many balls trick.” Each of his backs had a football-sized patch sewn on the […]
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