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 Mount Pleasant pictured in Instano 1912, Indiana Normal yearbook | |
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 13, 1884 Tuscarora Reservation, New York, U.S. |
| Died | April 12, 1937 (aged 52) Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1905–1907 | Carlisle |
| 1908–1909 | Dickinson |
| Position(s) | Quarterback, halfback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1910 | Franklin & Marshall |
| 1911–1913 | Indiana Normal |
| 1914 | West Virginia Wesleyan |
| 1915 | Buffalo |
| Basketball | |
| 1910–1911 | Franklin & Marshall |
| Baseball | |
| 1911 | Franklin & Marshall |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 35–15–3 (football) 4–4 (basketball) 5–7–1 (baseball) |
Franklin Pierce Mount Pleasant Jr. (June 13, 1884 – April 12, 1937) was a Native American football player, track and field athlete, and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He played college football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and Dickinson College and graduated from Dickinson in 1910. He was the first Native American to graduate from Dickinson. He made the 1904 and 1908 US Olympic track teams, placing sixth in the triple jump and long jump at the 1908 Summer Olympics. [1][2]
Mount Pleasant served as the head football coach at Franklin & Marshall College (1910), Indiana Normal School, now Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1911–1913), West Virginia Wesleyan College (1914), and the University at Buffalo (1915). He was also the head basketball coach at Franklin & Marshall for the 1910–11 season and the school's head baseball coach in the spring of 1911. After World War I, in which he served as a first lieutenant, he settled in Buffalo, New York, where he worked odd jobs.
- ^ Olympic Sports. Frank Mount Pleasant Archived February 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Sports Reference
- ^ "Frank Mount Pleasant". Olympedia. Retrieved March 13, 2021.