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Franklin Pierce Mount Pleasant, Jr. (June 13, 1884 – April 12, 1937) was an 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 at Dickinson College, and made the 1904 and 1908 US Olympic track teams, placing sixth in the triple jump and long jump at the 1908 Summer Olympics.〔(Olympic Sports. Frank Mount Pleasant ), Sports Reference〕 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 1910–11 season and the school head baseball coach in the spring of 1911. the After World War I, in which he served as a first lieutenant, he settled in Buffalo, New York, where he worked at odd jobs for the rest of his life. ==Early life and athletic career== Franklin Pierce Mount Pleasant, Jr., called Frank, was born into the nation on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation in New York; it is the Sixth Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy. He was the son of Chief John (aka Frank Senior) and Rachael.〔 At a time when federal Indian policy emphasized assimilation, Mount Pleasant was sent away as a child to be educated at Indian boarding schools. He eventually attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School from 1905 to 1909, where he competed as both a long jumper on the track team and as a quarterback and halfback on the football team.〔(Sally Jenkins, "The Team That Invented Football" ), ''Sports Illustrated'', 19 April 2007〕 The 1907 Carlisle Indian team, coached by Glenn Scobey Warner (known as "Pop" Warner) went 10–1 with a 26–6 victory over the perennial powerhouse, Harvard. The team's only loss of the season came against Princeton in a game in which Mount Pleasant did not play. His teammates included Jim Thorpe, future Pro Football Hall of Famer, and Albert Exendine, future College Football Hall of Fame inductee. Despite being a second-team All-American, Mount Pleasant never played professional football; the NFL was not started until 1920. He did play semi-pro football in Buffalo.〔 It is said that Mount Pleasant invented the spiral pass. During college, Mount Pleasant tried out for the Olympics and became the first Carlisle student to qualify; he made both the 1904 and 1908 U.S. Olympic track teams. At the 1908 Olympics in London, Mount Pleasant finished sixth in both the triple jump and the long jump competitions. This ended his track and field career, leaving him with career bests of for the long jump and for the triple jump.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Mount Pleasant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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