The 1904 Carlisle Indians football team represented the

Carlisle Indian Industrial School The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918. It took over the historic Carlisl ...

as an independent during the 1904 college football season. Led by

Eddie Rogers Edward Lowell Rogers (April 14, 1876 – October 17, 1971) was an American football player and coach. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1968. Rogers was also elected to the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame in 1973. Ear ...

in his first and only season as head coach, the Indians compiled a record of 10–2 and outscored opponents 347to 44. The school started their program in 1895 and began playing against

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schools. Within the next twenty years they became one of the strongest football teams in the country.

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