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1901 Carlisle Indians Football Team Cabinet Photograph with a young future baseball Hall of Famer Chief Bender. Other notables in the photograph include Pop Warner and Indians star Jimmy Johnson. One of my favorite parts of the image, is the player named Beaver in the front row, has a melon football propped on his shoulder, with the football sporting a 1901 cap.
1909 Imperial Sized Carlisle Indian School Cabinet Photograph with Pop Warner in the back row, and Joseph Libby, the captain, holding a large melon shaped football. Libby was one of the players with whom Jim Thorpe left Carlisle during a summer to play baseball in South Carolina; an act that would later result in Jim Thorpe losing his Olympic medals.
1899 or 1900 Carlisle Indians Football team Cabinet photograph with a young Pop Warner and Chief Bender.
Circa 1905 Carlisle Indian School Shoemakers Shop Football Team Cabinet Photograph. At the Indian school, each shop had its own football team, which competed with each other for bragging rights. Jim Thorpe played for the Tailor shop.
Circa 1900 to 1910 Carlisle Indian School Oversized Fish Tail shaped pennant, with a great image of an Indian football player running with a football.
Circa 1905 Carlisle Indian School Blacksmiths Shop Football Team Cabinet Photograph. At the Indian school, each shop had its own football team, which competed with each other for bragging rights. Jim Thorpe played for the Tailor shop.
Circa 1910 Oversized Carlisle Indian School Pennant with Old English Style sewn on lettering.
Circa 1910 Oversized Carlisle Indian School Pennant with Detailed Indian Chief in Headdress.
Circa 1910 Oversized Carlisle Indian School Pennant with Sewn on lettering.
Circa 1910 Carlisle Indian School Shop Football Team cabinet photograph from the Mitchell Pierce estate. I am unsure as to what shop this team is.
1910 Carlisle Indian School Athletic Association Letter Award Certificate given to Mitchell Pierce for earning the Carlisle Varsity C for Lacrosse. The certificate is signed by Glen Pop Warner.
Circa 1910 Carlisle Indian School Lacrosse team photo from the Mitchell Pierce estate.
Circa 1900 Carlisle Indians John Wanamaker Pinback. These pins were purportedly given out or sold at Franklin Field football games in 1900.
1910 Carlisle Indians versus Harvard Law School Full Football Unused Ticket in gem mint condition.