Francis Mitchell Cayou (March 7, 1878 – May 7, 1948) an
American football player and coach of football,
basketball, and
baseball. He served as the head football coach at
Wabash College from 1904 to 1907 and at
Washington University in St. Louis from 1908 to 1912, compiling a career
college football
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coaching record of 38–30–4. He also coached basketball at Washington University from 1908 to 1910 and again from 1911 to 1913, tallying a mark of 25–23. Cayou was a member of the
Omaha tribe and attended the
Carlisle Indian Industrial School and then
Dickinson College
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. He played football as a
quarterback for the
Carlisle Indians. After the close of Carlisle's 1898 season, Cayou and
Eddie Rogers played for
Dickinson College
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, where they were enrolled in law school, in their Thanksgiving Day loss versus
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. He also played
quarterback and
running back for
Illinois Fighting Illini and was noted for his speed that was displayed on a 95-yard kickoff return versus
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. Cayou also set the
Illinois Fighting Illini track record in the 220-yard dash, clocking in at 22 3/5 sec, before bettering it with a 22 sec run. Cayou served as captain of the Illinois track team in 1902 when elected captain, O.C. Bell, fell ill.
Cayou, known as Standing Elk, also served as chief of the Omaha tribe.
Coaching career
Cayou was the 16th head football coach at
Wabash College, serving from 1904 to 1907, and compiling a record of 20–13–1. In 1905, Cayou led Wabash to one of its most impressive upsets when it defeated
Notre Dame
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, 5–0, at
South Bend. It proved to be the Fighting Irish's only home-field loss in 125 games between 1899 and 1928.
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On January 6, 1918, Cayou became the athletic director of the Illinois Athletic Club, where he served until 1921.
Cayou also served as the athletic director of the
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in
Illinois from 1921 to 1923.
Head coaching record
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1878 births
1948 deaths
American football quarterbacks
Basketball coaches from Nebraska
Carlisle Indians football players
Wabash Little Giants baseball coaches
Wabash Little Giants football coaches
Washington University Bears football coaches
Washington University Bears men's basketball coaches
Omaha (Native American) people
Players of American football from Nebraska
Native American players of American football
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