14 Facts About Isaac Seneca

Isaac Seneca was selected as an All-American halfback on the 1899 College Football All-America Team.

Isaac Seneca was the first Carlisle player and the first American Indian to be selected as an All-American.

Isaac Seneca was born in 1874 on the Cattaraugus Reservation in New York.

Isaac Seneca played football for Carlisle from 1896 to 1899 and 1901.

Isaac Seneca was given the ball to go through the centre.

Isaac Seneca got through with one or two Yale men hanging on to him.

However, the referee waved off the touchdown, ruling that Isaac Seneca was "down" when the Yale players hung on to him.

Isaac Seneca was the star of the game, having two runs of 30 yards and another of 40 yards.

Isaac Seneca never had an idea that he would see the Pacific Ocean.

Isaac Seneca paid Mr Thompson tribute as an excellent athletic teacher.

Isaac Seneca was later named by Athlon Athletics to the All-Time American Indian College Football Team.

Information on Seneca's later years is lacking, though a 1917 publication noted that a Carlisle graduate named Isaac Seneca was the head of the blacksmithing department at the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School near Ponca City, Oklahoma.

At the time of the 1930 United States Census, Isaac Seneca was listed as a blacksmith working in Ponca City, Oklahoma.

Isaac Seneca moved back to New York sometime between 1937 and 1940; at the time of the 1940 United States Census, he was living at the Cattaraugus Reservation, Erie County, New York, listed as widowed, working as a blacksmith.