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 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.
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13 June 1884 Tuscarora Reservation
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Died |
12 April 1937 (aged 52) Buffalo, New York
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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