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Show WANT NO BRUTAL .FOOTBALL. Carlisle Indians Making Use of Nevr Rules. Tribune Special Sporting Service. The Carlisle Indian School 's football foot-ball eleven for this year is likely more favored by the new rules than any other team in the country. Owing to its peculiar make-up the Indians can be counted upon to do everything possible this year to eliminate brutality from the great college game. Again the Carlisle officials take up the ide of having their eleven coached bv full-blooded Indians of intelligence. Major Mercer has secured as the head coach for the coming ' season Bemus Pierce, a Seneca Indian from New York State, who is without doubt the best posted Indian on the subject of footba!. Bemus Pierce, who has distinguished himself by many hard-fought battles on the gridiron, has devoted himself for the last four years to training foot-ballists, foot-ballists, mostly in the western part of tho country. "This year he will be assisted as-sisted by Frank Hudson, the famous drop-kicker, who will teach the young Indian how to kick during his spare hours. Hudson is cashier at the bank .maintained at the Carlisle school. The Indians' priucipal characteristics this year will bo ,-flectness of foot and lack of avoirdupois. They will have, either as ends or back-field player?, Erobably four men who can run one uudred yards in ten seconds. During t.ho last spring eeaspn nearly all of the Indians who will play on "this year's football eleven took up track and field work, and progressed jemarkabjy. as a general thing. No attempt will be made to fatten 1ho Carlisle warriors to oven meet in a measure the overwhelming over-whelming weight of tho teams which they will play. It is thought that the new rules "will give tho redskins a chance to show theii ncctness of foot and remarkable agility. A novel conception of the Carlislo officials is their design for securing the best available technical advisors in matters pertaining lo coaching to help Pierce, and because of this design Superintendent Su-perintendent Mercer has entered into correspondence with such coaches ?s Glen S. Warner, the Cornell athletic director, -who trained the Carlisle Indians In-dians for many years. George Woodruff. Wood-ruff. Nathan P. Rtauffer of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, and Captain ShcvJin of. Yaic, and found to his talisf action that these authorities, together with several sev-eral moro that are yet unnamed, will bo on the Indian field here in the capacity ca-pacity of advisory coaches. iiit turn long enough to give the hardy pigskin chasers advice on which tnev aro specialists. This unusual method of coaching a football team will, it is hoped by the ' Carlisle authorities, make the 'Indians piny this year typically typi-cally American and fairly representative representa-tive of the Tiastern jiame. The Esquimau. .ikifcr Schouchuk. has returned to Carlisle to complete j. industrial courso and will play at center New York American. |